Editing Operation Teapot (section)

==Individual blasts==

===Wasp===

During shot ''Wasp'', ground forces took part in [[Exercise Desert Rock VI]] which included an armored task force ''Razor'' moving to within {{convert|900|m}} of ground zero, under the still-forming [[mushroom cloud]].<ref name="teapot">{{cite web|url=http://www.dtra.mil/documents/ntpr/historical/1955%20-%20DNA%206009F%20-%20Operation%20TEAPOT.pdf|title=Operation Teapot 1955|work=Nuclear Test Personnel Review|publisher=Department of Defense|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915201615/http://www.dtra.mil/documents/ntpr/relatedpub/DNATR966041F.pdf|archive-date=September 15, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Bee===

An augmented [[Marine Corps Test Unit|test unit]] from the [[United States Marine Corps]] participated in shot ''Bee'' during the March 1955 exercises.<ref name="teapot"/>

===MET===

The ''MET'' was the first bomb core to include [[uranium-233]] (a rarely used [[fissile isotope]] that is the product of [[thorium-232]] neutron absorption), [[Pit (nuclear weapon)#Composite cores and uranium pits|along with plutonium]]; this was based on the plutonium/U-235 pit from the TX-7E, a prototype [[Mark 7 nuclear bomb]] design used in the 1951 ''[[Operation Buster-Jangle]] Easy'' test. It produced a yield of 22kt (comparable to the ''[[Fat Man]]'' plutonium-only weapon that exploded over Nagasaki), but significantly less than the expected amount. Since it was a military effects test, the DoD specified that the device should have a calibrated yield within 10% of ratings. However, weapon designers at Los Alamos substituted the experimental core without notifying the DoD. The unexpected lower yield, 33% less than the DoD expected, ruined many of the military's tests.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Teapot.html | title= Operation Teapot |date= October 15, 1997 | work= Nuclear Weapon Archive | access-date= December 9, 2008 }} "The predicted yield was 33 kt. The actual 22 kt was 33% below this, seriously compromising the data collected." [[cf.]] "Nuclear Test Film - Operation Teapot" (linked below) ~17:30 "While the expected yield was 28 kilotons, radiochemical analysis indicated a yield closer to 22 kilotons."</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Busterj.html | title= Operation Buster-Jangle |date= October 15, 1997 | work= Nuclear Weapon Archive | access-date= March 18, 2012 }}</ref>

===Apple-2===

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{{see also|Japanese Village (Dugway Proving Ground)|Nevada Test Site#Landmarks and geography}}
[[File:Operation Cue (1955).ogv|thumb|''Operation Cue'' (1955)]]
The Civil Defense ''Apple-2'' shot on May 5, 1955 was intended to test various building construction types in a nuclear blast. An assortment of buildings, including residential houses and [[electrical substation]]s, were constructed at the site nicknamed "'''Survival Town'''" by some and "'''Doom Town'''" by others.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tunc |first1=Tanfer Emin |title=Eating in Survival Town: Food in 1950s Atomic America |journal=Cold War History |date=3 April 2015 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=179–200 |doi=10.1080/14682745.2014.950239|s2cid=153868990 }}</ref> The buildings were populated with mannequins, and stocked with different types of canned and packaged foods. Not all of the buildings were destroyed in the blast, and some of them still stand at [[Area 1 (Nevada National Security Site)|Area 1]], Nevada Test Site. A short film about the blast, referred to as "Operation Cue", was distributed by the [[Federal Civil Defense Administration]]. The houses are still standing at {{coord|37.04476|-116.07416|display=inline}}, at the east and west ends of the road loop. They are stops on the [[Nevada National Security Site]] (NNSS) tour.

From declassified documents dated February to May 1956, the Apple-2 shot, as part of Operation Teapot Project 35.5 "Effects of Nuclear Explosion on Records and Records Storage Equipment" was staged on the Nevada Test Site to determine the effects of nuclear explosions on various types of records and record storage equipment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1958-Operation-Teapot-Effects-of-Nuclear-Explosion-on-Records-and-Records-Storage-Equipment.pdf|title=Operation Teapot Project 35.5 Declassified|website=blog.nuclearsecrecy.com}}</ref>