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Reason
This is a bit more than your average cannon...
Proposed caption
A gun-type fission weapon was fired from an 11-inch artillery piece called "Atomic Annie" on May 25, 1953. The 4.5-foot long shell produced a 15-kiloton nuclear blast 6.2 miles away. This was the only nuclear artillery shell actually fired in the US test program.
Articles this image appears in
Nuclear artillery
Creator
Department of Energy[1]
Altered colors
I've attempted to alter the color balance to improve contrast and white balance - but bear in mind that I have no idea what the sky should look like during a nuclear blast. I'm not sure how many times the colors have been altered previously in the image's history, either.
  • Comment, how unique is this picture? In my opinion, this picture, being as unsharp as it is, needs to be very unique to become featured. In any case, it needs some clonebrushing before i can support it. --Aqwis 00:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Irregularities removed
It looks like the image may contain dust or scratches from an original scanned photograph, but it's very hard to tell them from actual shrapnel of the explosion. Still, further retouching might make it look nicer... but is it appropriate? I've made an attempt, though. Mike Serfas 00:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah but to be fair this image isn't exactly brilliant either... --Fir0002 22:39, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Oppose Yes no doubt this is rare, iconic etc - but there are only so many such images we should make FP - otherwise basically every war photo predating the 70's ends up as listed amongst wiki's finest. The 100% image is utterly useless - it's just been blown up with the scanner without providing anymore detail than the 800px thumbnail. So on quality grounds - despite historic exceptions - I don't think this image is up to FP standard --Fir0002 22:39, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 01:23, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]