Decades Later, CIA’s Nuclear Device Remains Lost On India’s Nanda Devi

Decades Later, CIA’s Nuclear Device Remains Lost On India’s Nanda Devi

India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC – At the height of the Cold War in 1965, as China raced ahead with its nuclear weapons program, an extraordinary covert operation unfolded high in the Indian Himalayas. The United States and India quietly joined hands on a secret mission to monitor Chinese missile tests by placing a nuclear powered surveillance device atop Nanda Devi, one of India’s most revered peaks, according to The New York Times. The plan…