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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:40, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
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Casaba-Howitzer
- ... 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).
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px. |
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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)