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

In 1965, Indias top climbers carried a nuclear spying device up Nanda Devi for the CIA to watch Chinas atomic tests. Bad weather forced them to abandon it. The device vanished into the glacier, taking five kilograms of plutonium with it. Parliament asked questions, but the device was never found. Today, meltwater feeds the Ganga from the same glacier. Local fears remain while official monitoring is absent. The Cold Wars hidden bomb still rests, half-lost, beneath Indias sacred peaks.