Treat This Like Plutonium

“Then Captain Kohli made a fateful decision. He needed to, he said — to save the climbers’ lives. ‘Secure the equipment. Don’t bring it down.’ … ‘Aye, aye, sir.’ The climbers scampered down the mountain after stashing the C.I.A. gear on a ledge of ice, abandoning a nuclear device that contained nearly a third of the total amount of plutonium used in the Nagasaki bomb. It hasn’t been seen since. And that was 1965.” NYT (Gift Article): How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? “A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a hush-hush mission the U.S. still won’t talk about.”