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 as well as the secrecy some them. It too features some interesting information visualizations.

In Firebombs USA Alex explores some historical information visualizations of the American nuclear as well as firebombing campaigns against Nihon during World War II. For this weblog postal service he too creates a modern interactive map using information from an historical U.S. Army Air Force's journal map of the American air travail against Japan. The historical map attempts to demo the human toll of the American air travail on Nihon past times showing an American map on which American cities convey been paired amongst Japanese cities of roughly the same population. The map shows the pct of the population that were killed inwards each of these partnered Japanese cities.

Alex's Firebombs USA map uses the same metropolis names as well as impairment percentages to similarly visualize the disclose of deaths caused past times the American air travail inwards Japan. Alex's map too pairs American cities amongst Japanese cities of like population sizes. It uses scaled circles (or pie charts) to demo the pct of the citizens who died inwards each of the Japanese cities.