The name of this book, "Nuclear Bomb in Ganga" sounds fearsome. But, it is a hard fact which has to be brought in black and white for the safety of millions of Indians who consider the river "sacred Ganga" or "the Ganges" as their mother.
After China detonated their first nuclear test on 16 October, 1964 at Lop Nor in the Gobi desert of Xinjiang province, Western China, the USA was keen to keep track of further nuclear designs of Communist China in this region. With the help of India, which was humiliated during the hit-and-run attack by China in 1962 conflict, the CIA teamed up with the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) to install a Nuclear Device on Nanda Devi Mountain to monitor further detonations by China in Lop Nor, across the Himalayas.
Inclement weather during the installation mission forced the team involved in the expedition to hide the nuclear-powered device in a ledge around 2000 feet below the installation point of the Nanda Devi Mountain. When the recovery team of Indian climbers was sent in October, 1966 to retrieve the equipment, it found them missing into the glaciers due to avalanche. The CIA and Indian intelligence maintained an eerie silence about the missing device until it was exposed by an American magazine on 12 April, 1978.
The then Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai, briefed the Parliament on 17 April, 1978 about the missing device and appointed a committee of scientists to investigate this issue, In April, 1979, the scientists submitted their report but no action was taken on their recommendations.
The author approached the Prime Minister's office in September, 2015 and received some information from the Department of Atomic Energy about the precarious situation. He has examined all details of this mystery in this book.
The name of this book, "Nuclear Bomb in Ganga" sounds fearsome. But, it is a hard fact which has to be brought in black and white for the safety of millions of Indians who consider the river "sacred Ganga" or "the Ganges" as their mother.
After China detonated their first nuclear test on 16 October, 1964 at Lop Nor in the Gobi desert of Xinjiang province, Western China, the USA was keen to keep track of further nuclear designs of Communist China in this region. With the help of India, which was humiliated during the hit-and-run attack by China in 1962 conflict, the CIA teamed up with the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) to install a Nuclear Device on Nanda Devi Mountain to monitor further detonations by China in Lop Nor, across the Himalayas.
Inclement weather during the installation mission forced the team involved in the expedition to hide the nuclear-powered device in a ledge around 2000 feet below the installation point of the Nanda Devi Mountain. When the recovery team of Indian climbers was sent in October, 1966 to retrieve the equipment, it found them missing into the glaciers due to avalanche. The CIA and Indian intelligence maintained an eerie silence about the missing device until it was exposed by an American magazine on 12 April, 1978.
The then Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai, briefed the Parliament on 17 April, 1978 about the missing device and appointed a committee of scientists to investigate this issue, In April, 1979, the scientists submitted their report but no action was taken on their recommendations.
The author approached the Prime Minister's office in September, 2015 and received some information from the Department of Atomic Energy about the precarious situation. He has examined all details of this mystery in this book.