Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Atomic cannon

Atomic cannon

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Nov 2010 at 03:54:28 (UTC)

Original - Video of Upshot-Knothole Grable test

Reason

Truly mpressive to see a cannon actually shoot a nuclear bomb; very high EV; unique

Articles in which this image appears

Nuclear artillery, M65 Atomic Cannon, Upshot-Knothole Grable

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War

Creator

U.S. Department of Energy

• Support as nominator --Nergaal (talk) 03:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

  Note: Yes, technically a limited video, but I believe this is the best anyone will get to see a cannon shooting a nuclear device. I am not sure if movies like this can be edited (to remove the pole/band on the right). This is a color picture with a similar perspective of that of the video. Nergaal (talk) 03:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

• Support, high EV, historically significant, nearly impossible to reproduce, etc. I'm fine with it as is. --Golbez (talk) 16:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom and Golbez wackywace 17:03, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose. Hmm, this one seems to be cut off at both ends and there seem to be more complete and higher quality videos of this gun/shot on Youtube for example, unless I'm mistaken. Also, the audio sounds to be right channel only (not mono). --KFP (contact | edits) 23:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
• Neutral: my first instinct was to support, but then KFP raised a good point. There are tons of videos out there of this test shot that are of much better quality; they seem to be either a cleaned-up version of this reel, or shot in close proximity (one shows a cluster of at least four cameras running). Even though the derivative videos may be copywritten, I'm sure that most (if not all) original recordings were done by the US Government and are thus PD; I would happily support if one of these is found and uploaded, or this one has some cleanup work done (try asking WP:GL). bahamut0013^words_deeds 21:06, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose, as above. J Milburn (talk) 12:10, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose per KFP. Jujutacular ^talk 18:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
• Withdrawing this nom per Bahamut. Nergaal (talk) 20:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --Jujutacular ^talk 23:12, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

• Withdrawn by nominator. (So I figure it's okay to close as a participant in this case.) Jujutacular ^talk 23:12, 31 October 2010 (UTC)