CIA's 1965 nuclear generator, packed with Nagasaki-level plutonium, lost forever on India's Nanda Devi peak. Avalanche buried ...

At the height of the Cold War in 1965, China had just tested an atomic bomb. The CIA wanted to spy on Chinese missile tests ...

Indian and American climbers were prepared with their cargo, an antenna, cables and a 13 kg generator called the SNAP-19C.

A secret Cold War operation to spy on China ended with a plutonium-powered device abandoned on a Himalayan peak, triggering ...

A lost nuclear device in the Himalayas, filled with plutonium from a secret 1965 CIA-India mission to spy on China, disappeared at the Nanda Devi peak. The device remains missing, fueling fears of rad ...

Close-up observations of Pluto would be impossible without the use of generators that rely on cancer-causing plutonium to produce electricity and heat for New Horizons' instrumentation. Pluto is much ...

Do you remember the scene in “Back to the Future” where the mad scientist, Dr. Emmett Brown, explains to Marty McFly that his DeLorean time machine runs on plutonium? That it needs plutonium for “a ...

British Energy, the nuclear electricity generator, yesterday called for an immediate moratorium on the reprocessing of spent fuel at Sellafield, warning that otherwise the UK would be left with an ...

In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a five-year mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thirty-six years later, the car-size probe is still exploring, still sending its findings home. It ...