Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai made a statement about Operation High Altitude Test to India's Lok Sabha on April 17, 1978, confirming that the Indian government had sanctioned a joint mission with the CIA to place nuclear-monitoring devices in the Himalayas and that one device had been lost on Nanda Devi.
Sources
- How the United States Lost a Nuclear Device and Recovered an Indian Friend (warontherocks.com)
- https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/river-deep-mountain-high (caravanmagazine.in)
- https://eparlib.sansad.in/bitstream/123456789/808943/1/pms_md_06_04_17-04-1978.pdf (eparlib.sansad.in)
- https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v19/d100 (history.state.gov)
- https://rsdebate.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/419790/1/PD_105_18051978_17_p63_p71_12.pdf (rsdebate.nic.in)
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