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The CIA Lost Nine Cores of Plutonium in the Himalayas
Oct 26, 2021 Jesse Beckett, Guest Author
Of all the things you don’t want to lose, radioactive plutonium cores are near the top of the list. But this is exactly what the US did in the 1960s. The story involves, unsurprisingly, a secret CIA mission that went awry, resulting in a number of plutonium cores being left in the Himalayas mountains. Today, the cores are still missing and are blamed by many for the recent deadly floods in India’s Himalayas.
The cores were originally used as power sources for nuclear monitoring stations. In recent years villages near where the cores once were positioned have been severely impacted by intense floods, with one at the start of 2021 killing 50 people, and was said to have been caused by a piece of the glacier that dammed a stream. But some say these floods are not caused by nature, but by the plutonium cores in the mountains....
The CIA Lost Nine Cores of Plutonium in the Himalayas
Oct 26, 2021 Jesse Beckett, Guest Author
Of all the things you don’t want to lose, radioactive plutonium cores are near the top of the list. But this is exactly what the US did in the 1960s. The story involves, unsurprisingly, a secret CIA mission that went awry, resulting in a number of plutonium cores being left in the Himalayas mountains. Today, the cores are still missing and are blamed by many for the recent deadly floods in India’s Himalayas.
The cores were originally used as power sources for nuclear monitoring stations. In recent years villages near where the cores once were positioned have been severely impacted by intense floods, with one at the start of 2021 killing 50 people, and was said to have been caused by a piece of the glacier that dammed a stream. But some say these floods are not caused by nature, but by the plutonium cores in the mountains....