Talk:Nuclear weapon

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Creation

Add more relevance in the role that several other scientists had in the creation for example, Oppenheimer, Einstein, etc. QSpangenburg6 (talk) 15:03, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Louise Tayhlor's role in Nuclear Science

Louise Tayhlor (DE) was the creator of the first Theoretical nuclear weapon, as stated in a book found under a library dated to further than 1923. Later on, His influence brought J.R. Oppenheimer to create the first Nuclear weapon in a physical form with assistance if Einstein and other scientists TSARcism (talk) 09:35, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Inaccuracies map nuclear testing section

Hey,

I noticed that in the "Nuclear testing and fallout" section of this page there is a map with nuclear explosion locations (Rael Nuclear use locations world map.png). The description of this map in this article refers to nuclear tests ("Over 2,000 nuclear tests have been conducted[...]"), however the map includes the locations of the nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This makes it seem like the nuclear attacks on Japan are referred to as tests, which outside of being inaccurate, can also be seen as disrespectful to the major historic events that happened there.

I'm not sure what the best way of resolving this is. A map that only includes tests would be nice but I don't know of any that is available to use on Wikipedia. So probably an edit of the description would be best. An older version of the picture exists on Wikimedia. The first part of its summary might be preferred over the first part of the current description: "Map of locations of Nuclear tests and use of nuclear weapons in the twentieth century. The only use of nuclear weapons in war is at Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan. Locations of nuclear tests or weapons as dots. Major test sites with more than 100 tests marked as large dots". I like this description, but I don't know if this is to long?

Alternatively the description could be changed to be in line with the current description of the picture in it's summary: "Over 2,000 nuclear explosions have been conducted[...]". This would be better in my opinion, but since the map is still associated with the testing section of the article, it might still leave room for wrong interpretations.

I'm not able to edit this Wikipedia article myself and I feel this isn't a minor edit, so I thought bring it up here. APainInTheAss (talk) 20:49, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

I agree and I've edited the picture caption. Thanks for your vigilance. John (talk) 21:38, 1 December 2024 (UTC)