Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Operation Crossroads

Operation Crossroads
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests. 
 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 4, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 23:16, 18 November 2013‎ (UTC)



Operation Crossroads was a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. It was the first nuclear weapon test since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonation of a nuclear device since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Its purpose was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on naval ships. The Crossroads tests were the first nuclear tests to be publicly announced beforehand and observed by an invited audience, including a large press corps. They were conducted by Joint Army/Navy Task Force One, headed by Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, rather than by the Manhattan Project, which had developed nuclear weapons during World War II. A fleet of 95 target ships was assembled in Bikini Lagoon and hit with two detonations of Fat Man plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapons of the kind dropped on Nagasaki. The second of the two detonations, the underwater Baker shot, demonstrated, for the first time, the problem of radioactive contamination from "fallout."


 * This is my first nomination, so I am not sure how to proceed. I count a possible 4 points, since I am not aware of any TFA about nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons tests.  At least half the article is my work.  The relevant date, which would be worth only 1 point anyway, would be July 1, the 68th anniversary of the first detonation.  March 1 is the 60th anniversary of the first Bikini test after Crossroads, and the test that ruined the atoll forever (that date is mentioned in passing in the article).  However, I am nominating it for a non-specific date in hopes of speeding up the process. HowardMorland (talk) 20:28, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * 4 points. Two points for widely covered + one point for a requester who is a significant contributor to the article, and has not previously had an article appear as TFA + one point for no similar articles in the last three months. The last article on nuclear weapons was Manhattan Project in July. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:11, 15 November 2013 (UTC)