What’s New
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Regulus is up! I thought I had had finished it around dinnertime but then it hit me later on that I forgotten to do the image captions. So now it really is done. While preparing the captions I also realized that I had made (and saved) images of the Loon, the predecessor of the Regulus, so I added those as well.
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Regulus is almost done. I selected and photoshopped the images yesterday, wrote the Further Reading section earlier today, and woke up at 2:00 am and finished the video section. I have a partial essay (and I think a complete idea) so I hope to have Regulus done tomorrow and be well on my way on the next weapon.
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Atomic Annie is up! Finished the video section, the essay and then the captions–I’m working at 1:00 am so this is all still February 13th. I think my last weapon for the “Build Up” section is the Regulus. I need to double-check that. There are a few more gun-type uranium weapons out there but they come later on and I need to segue to the thermonuclear ones. I also added a back-up plug-in to the site, just in case. Sort of surprised this didn’t occur to me earlier.
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Working on the Atomic Annie page. Selected and photoshopped images and loaded them into WordPress. Created NukeMap image and link. Completed the stats section and the “Further Reading” section, as well (lots of good links). I still have to finish the video section (will be easy), the captions (will sort of be easy), and the essay (will not be so easy).
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Near midnight. Finished photoshopping the images and polishing the essay. Honest John is up! This was a tough one. Most of the weapons pages are taking 8-10 hours to produce–this one took 16-20, mostly because of the large number of photographs that I made on the road (which I then had to cull through) and the large number of final images (which I then had to photoshop). But it’s a good one.
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Finished culling and photoshopping all images–there are a lot of images for the Honest John, maybe two dozen. Uploaded to page. Finished stats section and NukeMap image and link. Just need to polish the essay now.
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Rewrote intro text on Home page to make the site more inviting, less ponderous. Adjust spacing between blocks on Home page. Should look about right now. Added the Further Reading section for the Honest John. Also, another hour or two trying to cull down my collection of Honest John images. There are more Honest Johns on display than any other nuclear weapon and I didn’t even go to them all!
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Corrected a few typos and added the “Recent Updates” section at the bottom of the Home page. Additional work on the Honest John page. Corrected a few typos and preparing to go back and copyedit all text once I post Honest John. Also exploring interactive map plug-ins to display nuclear weapons locations.
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Further work on the essay for Honest John. Redesigned the main page–hopefully, more attractive and easier to navigate.
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The page for the Corporal missile is up. That’s the eighth weapons page–so many more to go! But still, good progress. Next up is, I think, the Honest John rocket. I’ve already put together a few ideas for the essay in my head this morning while I was in the shower…