1966 Palomares B-52 crash edit
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Over the past year this article about a nuclear accident has grown and improved to the point where it now provides a good quality overview of this incident. I'm listing this for a PR to find out what additional changes it needs to satisfy the GA/FA criteria. Please take look and post your comments. Thank you.—RJH (talk) 20:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
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Comments from Socrates2008
I've just completed the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash article, which is now at FA status. Many of the sources for the two incidents overlap, so suggest that anyone wanting to improve this article starts by looking at the sources in the Thule article. In any event, I feel there is considerable room for improvement - details to follow. Socrates2008 (Talk) 21:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Some suggestions for improvement:
- Expand details of Operation Chrome Dome (this was the "southern route" - 12 flights/day)
- What was the outcome of the incident? (e.g. nuclear overflights over Spain/France/Italy, changes in procedures & safety, future of Operation Chrome Dome operations, political consequences)
- The list of ships will need to be cleaned up or moved to a separate list. The section should rather contain prose detailing the activities of these vessels.
- References are slim - there are a number of reliable sources that can be tapped for more information
- Details of the clean-up operation and Camp Miller are slim; there are recent reports that some contaminated material was buried instead of being removed
- Circumstances around the recovery of the weapon in the sea can be expanded; e.g. how/why did they drop it?
- I understand that this incident may have been the first time that one of these bombs was seen in public.
- The bomb type is not consistent in the article and its captions
- Photo of the accident scene / Palomares
- Palomares should be linked when it's first mentioned
- WP:MOS
Socrates2008 (Talk) 22:06, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
- I agree that this article is not yet of FA quality, and I appreciate your independent feedback.—RJH (talk) 17:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- No worries. I understand that it's not FA .— this was not meant to be a criticism, but rather a pointer to some reliable sources. Socrates2008 (Talk) 11:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)