Nuclear explosion MET data

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Country
USA
Operation
Teapot
Date
1955-04-15
Yield
22 kT

USA - Teapot - MET

Device Type: Implosion composite core Military Effects Tower. Supposed to be a standard effects test LASL clandestinely substituted experimental core thus undershot estimated yield by 33%. Hilarity ensues. Desert Rock 5.

Base info

Operation Teapot - 22 kT out of 167 kT

13%

Locations

Area 5 - 22 kT out of 187 kT

12%

11 (Frenchman Flats) - 22 kT out of 187 kT

12%

Purposes

Deliveries

Tower - 22 kT out of 2.5 MT

0.9%

NTS Area 5 11 (Frenchman Flats) Map