CIA loses nuclear-powered gadget in the Himalayas, shrugs
The CIA tried to hide a nuclear device on a hallowed mountain. It did not go well.
In a story that sounds like a “Spies Like Us” sequel but is depressingly real, the CIA once hauled a nuclear-powered spying device up a sacred Himalayan mountain and then promptly lost control of it. A new video by Michael Pollard revisits the Nanda Devi expedition, a Cold War scheme so reckless it combined mountaineering hubris, radioactive m…
