Operation Teapot (1954)
Courtesy: U.S. Department of Energy
0800017 - Operation Teapot, Military Effects Studies - 1954 - 30:20 - Color - Operation Teapot consisted of 14 nuclear tests detonated from February 18 to May 15, 1955.
The goal of the series was to test nuclear devices for possible inclusion in the nuclear weapons stockpile; improve military tactics, equipment and training; and study civil defense requirements. With Operation Teapot, the Atomic Energy Commission intensified its technical effort for "clean" or reduced fallout weapons and missile warheads. This effort led to significant advances in both reduced fallout and in miniaturization necessary for warhead delivery on missiles.
Approximately 11,000 scientific and military personnel participated in the entire test series. Approximately 7,700 Army personnel and 1,300 Marines participated in the Desert Rock VI exercises that included the WASP, MOTH, TESLA, TURK, BEE, ESS, APPLE-1, MET, and APPLE-2 tests. The troops observed nuclear blasts to familiarize themselves with weapons effects and battlefield tactics. After observing a blast, they would tour a display area of military equipment exposed to the blast. Both officers and enlisted personnel practiced nuclear age battlefield tactics and combat techniques.
In addition to studying the psychological effects of nuclear weapons on ground soldiers, scientists and military leaders wanted to learn the effects of the detonations on different types of military equipment and structures. One test, APPLE-2, involved a specially constructed "Doom Town," complete with houses, automobiles, paved streets, and mannequins. This village allowed scientists to assess the effects of nuclear detonations on civilian populations, products, and food supplies, and to evaluate Civil Defense emergency preparedness plans.
At that time, U.S. leaders and the public were acutely aware of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and there was a general fear of an all-out nuclear attack by the Soviets. Hence, a great emphasis was placed on Civil Defense.
The tests comprising the 1955 Operation Teapot were as follows:
WASP, February 18, airdrop, weapons effects, 1 kiloton (kt)
MOTH, February 22, tower, weapons related, 2 kt
TESLA, March 1, tower, weapons related, 7 kt
TURK, March 7, tower, weapons related, 43 kt
HORNET, March 12, tower, weapons related, 4 kt
(scientists sought to determine if smog attenuated the heat of a nuclear fireball)
BEE, March 22, tower, weapons related, 8 kt
ESS, March 23, crater, weapons effects, 1 kt
APPLE-1, March 29, tower, weapons related, 14 kt
WASP PRIME, March 29, airdrop, weapons related, 3 kt
HA (high altitude), April 6, airdrop, weapons effects, 3 kt
POST, April 9, tower, weapons related, 2 kt
MET, April 15, tower, weapons effects, 22 kt
(scientists gathered data from 38 experiments placed around ground zero)
APPLE-2, May 5, tower, weapons related, 29 kt
ZUCCHINI, May 15, tower, weapons related, 28 kt
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My Father was one of the service men that was given orders to participate in Operation Teapot. Orders were also given for his silence on this exercise. It was this year, 2020, during a conversation with another veteran that my sister and I were told to ask Dad where he was stationed during his time in the army. The eye opener for us is when this Veteran said "He is still living?!" That was the beginning of many eye openers. When I started to ask Dad some questions, he was quiet and reserved, but once I told him, his sworn to secrecy was lifted he can now talk about it, he opened up to us revealing he took part in three different test sites. Since then we have dug out his military suitcase, his trunk, his many letters, pictures and slides to piece together his timeline in service and listen to his days serving. They were oblivious to the many "Fall Outs" ...the domino effects that were to come. The look in his eyes and absorbing his unspoken thoughts now are just part of his anquish. The ground shook, his ears started ringing, cancer set in, along with other health issues for him. Dad just turned 88 years old and loves to wear his worn well fit Veteran's cap. There is no metal for the Atomic Veteran's on his cap. From my understanding full recognition of Atomic military personnel are ones that are not chosen to be honored with a metal. We know we are honored having him....
@wagsman9999
2 жыл бұрын
My dad too. Teapot, Upshot Knothole, Castle (not sure of the order). Wonder if they knew each other.
I just spoke with a victim of birth defects from these shots.. His family lived 120 miles from shot sites , his home in Utah. I also know many Navajos with thyroid and other cancers.From uranium mining.
@rosejane8077
2 жыл бұрын
They should be paid money from the government for all of their suffering they have had to endure.!!!😡
@rickprobst7555
Ай бұрын
@rosejane8077 BAHAHAHA I'm not laughing at the poor victims this happened to I'm laughing bc I Know they SHOULD be paid by the government but the government will Never EVER pay out money to these poor folks bc they don't care Hell half the shots they tried to keep Secret
@djsmithknows
Ай бұрын
@@rosejane8077 Research the RECA Act, Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which unfortunately just expired on June 10, 2024. Ask your Congressman and Senators to fight to renew it. The maximum compensation was $75,000.
Remarkable feats of engineering in what was, from todays perspective, a world of primitive means. Pre Computerized calculation and even the entire organization of this RnD effort, must have been astonishing.
@HaZe_Da_PiTBuLL
3 жыл бұрын
That’s what’s so amazing about the Manhattan project and without Richard Feynman who came up with a way to do nine math problems in three months when they were doing three math problems and nine months which allowed us to create the first atomic bomb is not the Nazis even though there is evidence that the Nazis that made the first nuclear bomb but we destroyed their heavy water plant so they were never able to build another
I'm a little Teapot Short and stout This is my thermal pulse And this is my blast
@norwaysuem
6 ай бұрын
I have pictures of him in the crater with the geiger counter and I have a picture of the mushroom cloud bomb that he took with his camera for probably 30 miles away and they thought he was safe or they knew it wasn't and they sent them anyway
That was Ray Walston narrating. He is more widely recognized for his stage, TV, and film acting career, including his role as Uncle Martin, in My Favorite Martian. He also held a Q-level clearance, the highest security level of our Department of Energy -- that not even presidents hold -- working for the USAF's Lookout Mountain Laboratory. LML produced thousands of nuclear test films documenting the US special weapons development.
@pacather
5 жыл бұрын
So old Luther Billis had Q clearance. Maybe that's how he got to Bali Hi without being an officer.
@georgemartin1436
4 жыл бұрын
Great and interesting additional info...and yes, I can NOW hear that it is Ray narrating. THANKS
@anhedonianepiphany5588
4 жыл бұрын
I'm aware that Ray Walston was responsible for the narration in many of these films. I suppose that with all the distortion, and Ray's slightly different accentuations whilst wearing the narrator's hat, it's a little more difficult to identify his voice (although it's instantly familiar). This "Q clearance" obviously comes from Ray's work on Star Trek (TNG and Voyager) as Boothby. The character 'Q' was also an important personality on these programmes. I imagine that one required John de Lancie's approval (Q clearance) prior to acting in a show in which he participates. This may sound like nonsense, but so do many of the different naming schemes "uncovered" for alleged security levels!
@daveconrad6562
4 жыл бұрын
Anhedonian Epiphany what’s this have to do with Q movement ?
@EK14MeV
4 жыл бұрын
@@daveconrad6562 Everybody working at (and with) LML had Q (then the AEC equivalent of top secret) clearance. It is standard for any military technology agency. The "Q movement" nonsense has nothing to do with the Q Continuum of Star Trek in the 1990s Next Generation.
This narrator has an eerie quality to his tone. Always wondered why those smoke patterns were laid. Thanks!
That's one heck of a big land mine to stand on.
@josephastier7421
5 жыл бұрын
You would have to really jump up and down to set it off.
@Snape1337
2 жыл бұрын
Big bang
Really nice upload and footnotes. Thanks.
Several of the test-shots in this series (Apple-1, Apple-2 and Turk) were the test of two-stage Class-D thermonuclear warhead mockups that were later fully tested in operation Redwing in 1956 specifically the XW-27 and TX-28.
Portions of this video was classified and had to be taken out; like personnel running and saying " Whoa!! My ass is on fire!!!"....[LOL]
@7:12 I can’t believe at 72 feet underground you could still see the flash from the nuclear explosion at the surface
That poor soul died early arming that weapon....
spooky stuuf, cheers for upload ^_^
Love the swirly audio track!
GETTING closer to underground testing, which concluded up to 1980s, with the new sophisticated Computer Modeling. Entire surrounding are leaks of deadly Radiation.
@daveconrad6562
4 жыл бұрын
Is this what cern is?
@AlphaFlight
Жыл бұрын
So they think underground means the radiation won't harm anyone right anyway lol
I was born in 1954, no wonder I glow in the dark.
4:53 " not it!" Everyone else yelled when asked, " Who's gonna go down that hole and arm the nuke?" Except the poor soul who answered last lol.. It's that or lift a live nuke with a crane that might drop it.. Just imagine his heartbeat as he armed that nuke 70ft down
Anyone notice that class 6 mosler top secret filing cabinet at the end.
Thanks for posting in the correct aspect ratio. I can see the frame? Wow, no cropping at all!
Did anyone ever come up with an, "Operation Mushroom"?🍄
my grandfather was at operation cue in 1954 under operation teapot and saw the nukeular blast and was at castle bravo the one that blew up in the water
@user-cb2cg6jc8u
11 ай бұрын
Ur grandma did my grandpa at the tavern 😮
Very strange, only camera survived
How to make a ton of local fallout.
& Now Its A Nuclear END One Way or the Other
Anyone notice that the drone shown landing isn't the one that piled up at end of runway?
@djsmithknows
Ай бұрын
The makers of the movie, which was an Active Duty Air Force unit stationed in a Los Angeles suburb of Laurel Canyon residential home modified specifically for the production of DoD and Armed Forces films and photographs, known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory, apparently simply put together clips of mostly-aligned material to the audio, or vice-versa. But as for the sameness of the drone landing versus the drone piled into the end of the runway, there were several shots that used drones. Are you aware of the specifics of these drone flights? Would be very interested in any information you might know or have sources for.
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@Snape1337
2 жыл бұрын
B A H
I'm pretty sure an enemy would noticed someone trying to bury a nuke under theirs airport 🙄
This has been sanitized 😂 as soon as it starts
Wow how many people died from this test & then how many later got cancer & died early. Who knows the damage to earth.
@djsmithknows
Ай бұрын
A large amount of research was conducted to understand and chronicle the radiation exposure amounts and their effects. Research the RECA Act for more information.
dad was there March 7th..MCTU number 1
@FixItStupid
4 жыл бұрын
Did He Die From Cancer ?
Great documentary ,but terrible copy of the original could barley hear it .Crazy what they made those workers do in the 50"s .Hopefully I can find it from another site better sound quality
@djsmithknows
Ай бұрын
You are looking at the very best A/V technology of the time, including what Hollywood film makers were using and experimenting with. Then this was converted to the material we now see here. Much fidelity was lost and probably was never too clear to begin with.
Be kind... Rewind!
Complete insanity.
Ground zero. Hot earth. Have to wait to excavate the soil. Reminds me of the world trade center site
@daleneparole1502
10 ай бұрын
Look up the first times of using the words "Ground Zero", and why ? Poor sheep nowadays have no idea
22:51 Pfffft, DUH. I could have told you that.
they say this version was"sanitized" I want to know what they censored from this video
@djsmithknows
Ай бұрын
most likely the technology associated with the drones and how aircraft were radio controlled.
If possible the audio should be fixed. There is a severe warble.
@dale116dot7
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like the lower film loop wasn’t working properly so the film advance is modulating the film speed at the sound drum. My projector sounds like this if I don’t set that film loops up correctly.
Flying Teapot?
He said spring 1955
The sound in this video needs cleaning up along with the video quality.
@nicholasmaude6906
3 жыл бұрын
@yeetkid The original film can be cleaned up.
END OF THE WORLD - PREVIEW It's all gonna end like this folks. Isn't technology great.
@winterbear8633
4 жыл бұрын
No it's not. Nukes are probably just huge firebombs. Look into it and quit the despair, that's exactly why the nuke narrative exists.
@booklover6753
2 жыл бұрын
@@winterbear8633 Jeez dude, are you serious? Don't Insult people's intelligence.
@winterbear8633
2 жыл бұрын
@@booklover6753 I don't. Look at Chernobyl, it's a thriving natural park and there's people there that never left, and they're fine. Galen Windsor did a tour where he swallowed 'radioactive' material and explains how it's not dangerous but they had to pretend it was. I know letting go of the fear may be painful at first, but it's so much better when you get through it my friend. The world isn't about to end, and the future belongs to those who show up
7:12 17:22
0:38 At first I thought those were bottles of scotch.
1.2 Kt is insanely tiny I don’t think you can make a nuclear explosion smaller than that Donald Trump just commissioned Mini Nukes that are 1-2Kt I never knew the tested Nukes that small in the 50s a 1.2Kt mini nuke is the most dangerous nuke cuz it’s small enough to be used in warfare practically without much of a worry of nuclear fallout and small damage area
@MrShobar
Жыл бұрын
tRump didn't "commission" any such thing. He wanted BIG bombs to "nuke" a hurricane.
Sad that we will spend so much time and money learning how to destroy the world and each other.
9:15 - Even before Trump, his supporters were helping America's national security by volunteering their technical expertise in everything.
27:17 Large air pumps for balls
Just imagine, after ALL the testing of the b ombs... That they could place one of each under 2 buildings in 2001 and use the weight of the upper parts to bring the Buildings straight down... ??
and all this fallout from all these tests...fell on how many towns?? over and over again..duh huh?? zwhati?? duh duh???
Project nuketown has been comeplete well get on next time
Funny the colors sand used were the colors of Germany’s National Flag…. Any symbolism there?!
Someone could say conspiracy theorie
Shouldismisntism
GOD how stupe, pull out this big "teapot" book like some bedtime story or something
@MrShobar
Жыл бұрын
"harry tea potter"
Holy cancer
Why don`t they call it like it was...... Operation drinking Tea and Smoking Pot! kinda overkill on the land mine? but what the hell the Army always blows-up things big time!
Idiots testing their toys.pure parasitic behavior!