Eye at the Top of the World : The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold Wars Most Daring CIA Operation

English

ISBN: 1568583583

EAN: 9781568583587

Category: Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering/Travel / Asia / India/Nature / Mountains/Technology & Engineering / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems/Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence/

Publisher: Basic Books

Release Date: 01/19/2012

Synopsis: Incredibly, in the early 1960s, the CIA decided to put a nuclear-powered spy device on top of Nanda Devi-one of the Himalayas most remote and forbidding peaks. The goal was to gather information on Chinese troop movements. Some time later, the apparatus stopped sending signals; it was as though it had completely disappeared. The device was never recovered, and as you read these words, nearly four pounds of plutonium, locked in the glacier beneath the mountain, are moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River. Thats enough manmade poison to kill every human on earth, or to produce a bomb capable of flattening a city. Pete Takeda, an internationally recognized rock, ice, and alpine climber, not only interviewed surviving members of the original expedition, but also retraced their steps. An Eye at the Top of the World is both a dramatic history and a harrowing present-day account of Takedas expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi. Book jacket.

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Eye at the Top of the World : The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold Wars Most Daring CIA Operation

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.97 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 14.53 oz

Pages: 352