Editing Code name (section)

=== Code names of other powers ===
Britain and the United States developed the security policy of assigning code names intended to give no such clues to the uninitiated. For example, the British counter measures against the [[V-2 rocket|V-2]] was called ''[[Operation Crossbow]]''. The [[Nuclear weapon|atomic bomb]] project centered in [[New Mexico]] was called the [[Manhattan Project]], derived from the [[Manhattan Engineer District]] which managed the program. The code name for the American [[Lockheed A-12|A-12]] / [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71]] spy plane project, producing the fastest, highest-flying aircraft in the world, was ''Oxcart''. The American group that planned that country's first [[Intercontinental ballistic missile|ICBM]] was called the [[Teapot Committee]].

Although the word could stand for a menace to shipping (in this case, that of Japan), the American code name for the attack on the subtropical island of [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] in World War II was ''[[Battle of Okinawa|Operation Iceberg]]''. The Soviet Union's project to base missiles in Cuba was named ''[[Operation Anadyr]]'' after their closest bomber base to the US (just across the Bering Strait from Nome, Alaska). The names of colors are generally avoided in American practice to avoid confusion with meteorological reporting practices. Britain, in contrast, made deliberately non-meaningful use of them, through the system of [[rainbow codes]].