Operation Teapot - Part 1/3

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Operation TEAPOT consisted of 14 nuclear tests detonated from February 18 to May 15, 1955.

The goal of the series was to test nuclear devices for possible inclusion in the nuclear weapons stockpile; improve military tactics, equipment and training; and study civil defense requirements. With Operation TEAPOT, the Atomic Energy Commission intensified its technical effort for "clean" or reduced fallout weapons and missile warheads. This effort led to significant advances in both reduced fallout and in miniaturization necessary for warhead delivery on missiles.

Approximately 11,000 scientific and military personnel participated in the entire test series. Approximately 7,700 Army personnel and 1,300 Marines participated in the DESERT ROCK VI exercises that included the Wasp, Moth, Tesla, Turk, Bee, ESS, Apple-1, MET, and Apple-2 tests. The troops observed nuclear blasts to familiarize themselves with weapons effects and battlefield tactics. After observing a blast, they would tour a display area of military equipment exposed to the blast. Both officers and enlisted personnel practiced nuclear age battlefield tactics and combat techniques.

In addition to studying the psychological effects of nuclear weapons on ground soldiers, scientists and military leaders wanted to learn the effects of the detonations on different types of military equipment and structures. One test, Apple-2, involved a specially constructed "Doom Town," complete with houses, automobiles, paved streets, and mannequins. This village allowed scientists to assess the effects of nuclear detonations on civilian populations, products, and food supplies, and to evaluate Civil Defense emergency preparedness plans.

At that time, U.S. leaders and the public were acutely aware of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and there was a general fear of an all-out nuclear attack by the Soviets. Hence, a great emphasis was placed on Civil Defense.

The tests comprising the 1955 Operation TEAPOT were as follows:

WASP, February 18, airdrop, weapons effects, 1 kiloton (kt)
MOTH, February 22, tower, weapons related, 2 kt
TESLA, March 1, tower, weapons related, 7 kt
TURK, March 7, tower, weapons related, 43 kt
HORNET, March 12, tower, weapons related, 4 kt
(scientists sought to determine if a chemical fog attenuated the heat and precursor wave development of a nuclear fireball)
BEE, March 22, tower, weapons related, 8 kt
ESS, March 23, crater, weapons effects, 1 kt
APPLE-1, March 29, tower, weapons related, 14 kt
WASP PRIME, March 29, airdrop, weapons related, 3 kt
HA (high altitude), April 6, airdrop, weapons effects, 3 kt
POST, April 9, tower, weapons related, 2 kt
MET, April 15, tower, weapons effects, 22 kt
(scientists gathered data from 38 experiments placed around ground zero)
APPLE-2, May 5, tower, weapons related, 29 kt
ZUCCHINI, May 15, tower, weapons related, 28 kt

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[Killjeser]

LMMFAO! OH my, please tell me this is satire LMMFAO LOL!

[seroyer2]

This film seems to have deteriorated over the years.

[DancingSpiderman]

@enjoixander I heard UFO researcher J Allen Hynek tell that joke in an old UFO documentary film I downloaded from Google Video; Stan Deyo was the host. I cracked up too !

[enjoixander]

LOL Thanks, I needed that laugh!

[DancingSpiderman]

@enjoixander If you want to see flying saucers, goose the waitress...

[user92126]

I wonder if all those Scientists died of cancer

[DadsBlueAngel]

My mother, 2 month old sister and I --I was three and a half, went home for that Easter, downwind. We rode up the canyon with My Aunt Babe--the boys were bad--as always. They jumped on frozen puddles. My sister got a sliver of ice in her eye and screamed until it melted.

My Great grandmother had a cookie jar and I snuck next door whenever I could to get one. i wore my new white dress with red dots (dotted swiss) and my easter bonnet with a red ribbon under my chin.

[ivojara]

Really ? - Remeber the Russians also buried nuclear waste in moscow, and according to rumors they used nuclear blasts in salt domes under moscow to make diesel fuel resevoirs for central heating of buildings.

Als the french blasted the shit out of the Muroroa atoll irradiating all fish in the humboldt current, and on and, on and on...

[wankerman2001]

That is nothing, the Soviet left thousands of people in Kazakhstan left to dry with cancers, and poisoning for the next few hundred years to come and no one is doing anything about it. Same with China at the Lop Nur test site.

[enjoixander]

Tea cup...oops I broke the cup and threw the saucer. Now it's flying