Nuclear leakage in Ganga? How a secret CIA mission 60 years ago may haunt the billions in India who depend on the holy river


Nearly sixty years ago, deep in the Himalayas, Indias best climbers carried a nuclear-powered spying device up Nanda Devi, aiming it at Chinas secret atomic tests. What happened next has left a radio… [+8663 chars] Show more...

In 1965, India’s top climbers carried a nuclear spying device up Nanda Devi for the CIA to watch China’s atomic tests. Bad weather forced them to abandon it. The device vanished into the glacier, taking five kilograms of plutonium with it. Parliament asked qu…

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