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 14 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 108