The TEAPOT schedule was continually revised as the AEC waited for
appropriate weather conditions for firing the test shots.
The delay in one
shot often resulted in postponing subsequent shots, regardless of the weather.
The many schedule changes, affecting all but the first two shots, caused a
6-week extension of TEAPOT from 1 April to 15 May (15: 29).
The following table provides data on the TEAPOT tests (15: 1,5,9):
Event
Date
Type
WASP
18 February
Airdrop
MOTH
22 February
Tower
TESLA
1 March
Tower
TURK
7 March
Tower
43
HORNET.
12 March
Tower
4
BEE
22 March
Tower
ESS
23 March
Crater
APPLE 1
29 March
Tower
WASP PRIME
29 March
Airdrop
HA
6 April
Airdrop
POST
9 April
Tower
15 April
Tower
22
5 May
Tower
29
15 May
Tower
28
MET
APPLE 2
ZUCCHINI
4.11.1
Yield
(kilotons)
1
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Background and Objectives of Operation TEAPOT.
Operation TEAPOT furthered the efforts of the previous CONUS series, the
1953 Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE, which had studied both the tactical and
strategic uses of nuclear weapons (see section 4.9) (15: 27).
Authorized by
President Eisenhower on 30 August 1954, TEAPOT had two primary objectives:
e
To establish military doctrine and tactics for the use of ground
forces on a nuclear battlefield
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