Talk:Casaba-Howitzer

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Did you know... that an effort to build a nuclear shaped charge was called the Casaba Howitzer (warhead type illustrated) because General Atomics was "on a melon kick that year"?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:40, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Casaba type warhead

... that Casaba-Howitzer was an example of plowshares to swords, taking a nuclear rocket engine concept and turning it into a weapon? Source: Dyson 110 through 117.
- ALT1:... that an effort to build a nuclear shaped charge was called the Casaba Howitzer because General Atomics was "on a melon kick" that year? Source: Dyson 112.

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 17:07, 29 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: (1) "plasma" is a disambig (2) APRA is a disambig, but also a spelling error. It should be "ARPA". Also, the image link on Commons appeared to be broken, so I replaced it. Main and ALT1 sources both offline, but verified because I have the book Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:43, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7: Sorry, thought I had a QPQ for this... in any event, [1] Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:24, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't usually notify the nominator for missing QPQs because I assume the nominator knows it is the case. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:36, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]