Talk:Bed of nails defense

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A fact from Bed of nails defense appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Richard Garwin proposed using a bed of nails to protect the Minuteman missile silos from attack?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bed of nails defense.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 17:00, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in order to protect the Minuteman missile silos from attack, Richard Garwin proposed using a bed of nails? Source: Garwin
- Reviewed: Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly
- Comment: quite possibly the strangest yet also illuminating articles on cold war politics

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 197 past nominations.

Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 23:54, 19 April 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Very fascinating article; I had never heard of such a thing. Article is good and hook is interesting. I don't have access to the source so will assume good faith. Just waiting on a QPQ. —Panamitsu (talk) 08:02, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a link to JSTOR for the Garvin (1976) magazine article, which I hope will help. I note that almost all of the references are those of Richard Garwin, published over the span of about a decade, and that the proposal was never implemented. Nevertheless, and interesting article with an engaging hook that's also accurate! Klbrain (talk) 14:27, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Klbrain: QPQ Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Klbrain: You going to do this? --evrik ^(talk)
    - It's not my nomination; sorry if I've misunderstood your ping. Klbrain (talk) 20:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New reviewer needed. --evrik ^(talk) 21:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- The original reviewer, Panamitsu, was never pinged to review the QPQ. (t · c) buidhe 05:31, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the QPQ looks good. ―Panamitsu (talk) 08:02, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for bringing another interesting article to Wikipedia. The referencing is rather Garvin-heavy, but given that it was his idea, and that he had little support, I suppose that's not surprising. Good luck with the DYK proposal!

Klbrain (talk) 14:31, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]