Archives, Records, and all forms of information are fragile. Disasters happen and fire, water, humidity, as well as many other hazardous events can destroy Archives/Records if they are not properly protected. An example of trying to see what protections work for archives/records comes from an test called Operation Teapot. Operation Teapot used a Nuclear Explosion on an Archives/Records to see how well the storage equipment could withstand destruction. Archives/Records in metal containers such as lockboxes survived while the rest had varying degrees of damage or annihilation.