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Hello! This is to let editors know that File:Castle Bravo Shrimp Device 002 - restoration1.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for March 1, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-03-01. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! — Amakuru (talk) 15:34, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
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Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear-weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on March 1, 1954, the device was the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the United States and the first lithium deuteride–fueled thermonuclear weapon tested using the Teller–Ulam design. Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatonnes of TNT (63 petajoules), 2.5 times the predicted 6 megatonnes of TNT (25 petajoules), due to unforeseen additional reactions involving lithium-7, which led to radioactive contamination in the surrounding area. This photograph shows the Castle Bravo nuclear device, known as SHRIMP, in its shot cab. Photograph credit: United States Atomic Energy Commission; restored by Bammesk
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I like the gif, but its 6.42 MB. That's way too large, could we convert it into a video instead and embed it on the page? MarkiPoli (talk) 12:04, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
- That's not a bad point. Converting to .OGV cuts it down to ~600 Kb, so that's probably the best bet. That said, I have zero experience with uploading to commons, so I'm not sure how best to handle it. If anyone else feels up to the task, https://convertio.co/gif-ogv/ does the job of converting our GIF. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 12:42, 3 August 2023 (UTC)