The Nanda Devi Plutonium Device: Cold War Espionage, Myths, and the Real Environmental Risks
In the mid-1960s, long before satellites, drones, and real-time surveillance, global superpowers used an unlikely tool for spying – the Himalayas. One of the strangest episodes of the Cold War unfolded on Nanda Devi, India’s second-highest peak, involving a nuclear-powered …