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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 plutonium isotopes including Pu-239 -- the same material used in the Nagasaki bomb -- was left behind in October 1965 when a sudden blizzard forced climbers to retreat from Camp Four, just below the summit.​

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The mission originated from a cocktail party conversation between General Curtis LeMay and National Geographic photographer Barry Bishop, who had summited Everest in 1963. China had just detonated its first atomic bomb in October 1964, and the CIA wanted to intercept radio signals from Chinese missile tests by placing an unmanned listening station atop the Himalayas. Barry Bishop recruited elite American climbers and coordinated with Indian intelligence to haul surveillance equipment up the mountain.​

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Captain M.S. Kohli, the Indian naval officer commanding the mission, ordered climbers to secure the equipment and descend when the blizzard struck. Jim McCarthy, the last surviving American climber, recalled warning Kohli he was making a mistake. "You can't leave plutonium by a glacier feeding into the Ganges!" he recalled. "Do you know how many people depend on the Ganges?" When teams returned in spring 1966, the entire ice ledge where the gear had been stashed was gone -- sheared off by an avalanche. Search missions in 1967 and 1968 found nothing.​

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The device remains buried somewhere in the glaciers that feed tributaries of the Ganges River.​

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Randomuser said:

You know I bet if JD Vance become US president and doesn't divorce his Indian wife, I bet you will see a lot more white men with Indian wives because then it will be "cool" and acceptable. People are ultimately clout chasers despite what they claim.

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_killuminati_ said:

Because dating in general is taboo across the Islamic world (and was in India too). In most Islamic countries an outsider will get killed for doing this.

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Randomuser said:

You know I bet if JD Vance become US president and doesn't divorce his Indian wife, I bet you will see a lot more white men with Indian wives because then it will be "cool" and acceptable. People are ultimately clout chasers despite what they claim.

Did you know Mitch McConnell is married to Elaine Chao? You figure one of most powerful Republican members would get more crap for being married to a Chinese but people just went eh. Thats coz its kinda accepted at this point.

The middle east and south asia can claim to be so good at conserving their culture, but lets give it some time and see it when clout is involved. Just remember Saudi Arabia allows women to drive now. C.Ronaldo is a catholic yet treated as a god in the middle east. Oh yeah and lets not forget how much money was wasted on buying overpriced western luxury crap with oil money.

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Sardaukar20 said:

A young man's vlog coverage of the Kolkata Messi GOAT riot. Dude paid INR 5,000 (USD 55) and journeyed to the stadium in the early morning hours to see Messi for around 30mins. But he only saw a bunch of VIPs crowding out Messi for a few dozen minutes and that's it. He gets pissed, others around him gets pissed, and so the riot kicks off. Everything else is history.

Football culture is rocking in India. Buying a ticket also gives you the consumer right to wreck the stadium when you're pissed.

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Sardaukar20 said:

A young man's vlog coverage of the Kolkata Messi GOAT riot. Dude paid INR 5,000 (USD 55) and journeyed to the stadium in the early morning hours to see Messi for around 30mins. But he only saw a bunch of VIPs crowding out Messi for a few dozen minutes and that's it. He gets pissed, others around him gets pissed, and so the riot kicks off. Everything else is history.

Football culture is rocking in India. Buying a ticket also gives you the consumer right to wreck the stadium when you're pissed.

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