A lost nuclear device by the U.S. CIA in 1965 may become a threat to the Ganges pollution.

【U.S. Media Expose: The Missing Nuclear Device of the CIA in 1965 May Be the Source of Ganges Water Pollution】

On December 14, 2025, in Washington, the New York Times released a press statement saying:

In 1965, the United States planned to monitor China, which had just detonated an atomic bomb. The Central Intelligence Agency sent climbers to install a 22-kilogram nuclear device on the Himalayas to intercept signals from the mission control center. After sudden severe weather, the Americans abandoned the nuclear device. Since then, no one has seen it again.

60 years ago, Americans lost it on that mountain top, and they still refuse to admit that anything happened. It is currently unclear how dangerous this could be. However, the archival text states that the nuclear elements can be found and used to make a dirty bomb. Residents, environmentalists, and politicians in remote high-altitude areas of the Himalayas are worried that the nuclear device may have fallen into cold streams, becoming a source of radioactive leakage in the upper reaches of the Ganges — the most sacred river in India, and an important artery for hundreds of millions of people.

Original: toutiao.com/article/1851526076213255/

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