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Friday, December 4, 2020

Firebomb That City


Outrider's Bomb Blast map rightly acknowledges Alex Wellerstein's NUKEMAP equally a source of inspiration (and data). Alex's Restricted Data - Nuclear Secrecy Blog provides a fascinating insight into the history of nuclear weapons in addition to the secrecy roughly them. It besides features some interesting information visualizations.

In Firebombs USA Alex explores some historical information visualizations of the American nuclear in addition to firebombing campaigns against Nippon during World War II. For this weblog post service he besides creates a modern interactive map using information from an historical USA Army Air Force's journal map of the American air elbow grease against Japan. The historical map attempts to present the human toll of the American air elbow grease on Nippon yesteryear showing an American map on which American cities convey been paired amongst Japanese cities of roughly the same population. The map shows the percent of the population that were killed inwards each of these partnered Japanese cities.

Alex's Firebombs USA map uses the same metropolis names in addition to impairment percentages to similarly visualize the publish of deaths caused yesteryear the American air elbow grease inwards Japan. Alex's map besides pairs American cities amongst Japanese cities of like population sizes. It uses scaled circles (or pie charts) to present the percent of the citizens who died inwards each of the Japanese cities.