@ To improve the nuclear weapons used for strategic bomber delivery and missile delivery and those used for tactical battlefield situations. The DOD conducted Exercise Desert Rock VI to achieve the first objective, and the AEC fielded scientific experiments to achieve the second (15: 27,28). 4.11.2 TEAPOT Test Operations. Approximately 8,700 DOD personnel participated in TEAPOT observer programs, tactical maneuvers, scientific studies, and support activities. The largest number, about 8,000, took part in Exercise Desert Rock VI, which included observer programs at Shots WASP, MOTH, TESLA, TURK, BEE, ESS, APPLE 1, and APPLE 2 and troop tests at Shots BEE and APPLE 2. The largest single TEAPOT activity was the Marine Brigade Exercise at BEE, which involved about 300 officers and 1,950 enlisted men. The objective of the exercise was to train personnel and to test the tactics and techniques employed if a nuclear detonation were used to support an air-ground task force. The trogp test at APPLE 2, involving about 1,000 troops, was designed to demonstrate the capability of a reinforced tank battalion to seize an objective immediately after a nuclear detonation. In addition to these activities, technical studies were conducted at 10 of the shots (15: 1,5-7). 4.11.3 Dose Summary for Operation TEAPOT. The maximum dose limit for personnel of the Joint Test Organization, which coordinated Operation TEAPOT, and AFSWC was 3.9 rem of gamma radiation during the series. The limit for Desert Rock troops was 6.0 rem of gamma radiation during the series, with no more than 3.0 rem of prompt radiation. The Desert Rock troops had this higher limit because they, unlike JTO and some AFSWC technical personnel, were not likely to be exposed to radiation after the tests (15: 2,3). The 10 Desert Rock volunteer officer observers at APPLE 2 were authorized a special limit of 10.0 rem of gamma radiation. film badge readings were 1.3 rem. Their average Pilots for Project 2.8b, Manned Penetrations of Atomic Clouds, were authorized a limit of 15 rem. One participant had a film badge reading of 21.7 rem, and another received 21.8 rem (15: 3). 109