Template:Did you know nominations/Trinity (nuclear test)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:26, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Trinity (nuclear test)

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... that during the Trinity nuclear test (pictured), Enrico Fermi offered to take bets on whether the atmosphere would ignite, and if so whether it would destroy the entire planet?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Harold J. Greene

Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self nominated at 02:51, 24 September 2014 (UTC).

Meets core content policies as a sufficiently new good article. AGF offline source. By the way, this has to be one of the five or ten best DYK hooks I've seen in all the time I've been contributing to DYK. --Jakob (talk) 16:22, 24 September 2014 (UTC)