How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device?

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3. Very interesting and well written article, thanks for posting, a bit more from the article ....

"According to Captain Kohli and the once-secret Indian government documents, a team of climbers finally managed to install a new batch of surveillance equipment, powered by radioactive fuel, on a flat ice shelf on a lower summit, near Nanda Devi, in the spring of 1967.

But the Himalayan snows constantly buried it, cutting off signals it might have picked up. Once, when Indian climbers scaled back up to see what was wrong, they were astonished by what they found.

The warm generator had melted straight through the flat ice cap, Captain Kohli said. It sat in a strange cave, like a tomb, several feet under the snow, burrowing itself deeper and deeper into the ice. It was as if the device was hiding itself.

That sputtering telemetry station was shut down in 1968, with the equipment retrieved and sent back to the United States, according to Indian documents. But the C.I.A. still didn’t give up..."