Hollywood to make a film on Uttarakhand Nandadevi's Plutonium Pack incident

Dehradun, August 11: A Hollywood film will be made on the event related to the 1965 Plutonium pack on the top of Nanda Devi. This information was given by Uttarakhand’s Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj. The government has expressed its confidence in supporting this film. The government will also request that the film be shot in Uttarakhand.

 

Maharaj had attracted the attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this case just a few days ago. He requested the investigation of this matter. Maharaj had said that in 1965, the CIA had packed the pack on Nanda Devi peak, which he had left behind. Since then, what is its status; it is not in anybody's information.

While expressing the possibility of environmental hazard, Maharaj requested the Prime Minister to conduct an investigation. On Friday, Maharaj said that the whole incident is going to be a Hollywood movie. Also said that this film would prove to be inspirational. The campaign against radiation will run He said that if this film is made in Uttarakhand, then good and actual input will be obtained from the respective village.

Background:

In 1965, three years after China’s invasion into India, US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and India’s Intelligence Bureau collaborated to install a nuclear-powered sensing to check China’s burgeoning nuclear ambitions.

In 1964, amid the height of cold between Western and Eastern blocks, China had conducted a nuclear test in Xinjiang province; and in order to check further nuclear development, a device atop Nanda Devi was to be installed.

Guru Rinpoche was the name given to this device by the sherpas who climbed this device which was half the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Installing the device was indeed a daunting task as carrying a device weighing 56 kg alongwith 8-10 ft antenna, two transceiver sets and a system for nuclear auxiliary power (SNAP) generator was a quite a challenge.

On October 18 when team reached Camp IV, the extreme weather condition forced team leader Manmohan Singh Kohli to retreat; and he along with his men returned while forsaking the device there.

But in 1966 when the team returned to gather the device, they didn’t find anything. Kohli feared that since plutonium capsules have a longevity of almost a century, these capsules can cause a large scale contamination of the Rishi Ganga, the river that drains the Nanda Devi glacier into the Ganges.