How Did the CIA Lose a Nuclear Device?

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By msmashDec 15, 2025, 11:00 am196 pts
Sixty years after a team of American and Indian climbers abandoned a plutonium-powered generator on the slopes of Nanda Devi, one of the world's most forbidding Himalayan peaks, the U.S. government still refuses to acknowledge that the mission ever happened. The device, a SNAP-19C portable generator containing…

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