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#Arteetude 329 - Schlich and AI Co-Host Sophia discuss a Facebook post which includes a dramatic story about Nanda Devi, the CIA, and a nuclear-powered surveillance device lost high in the mountains during the Cold War. Posted by a friend who had just returned from travelling by bike through the Himalayas. The episode closes with a new song by Los Inorgánicos: “The Mountain Kept the Secret”.
In this episode of Arteetude, I follow a strange trail that began not in an archive, not in a theory, but in a Facebook post by a friend who had just returned from travelling by bike through the Himalayas.What caught my attention was a dramatic story about Nanda Devi, the CIA, and a nuclear-powered surveillance device lost high in the mountains during the Cold War. It was one of those stories that immediately ignites the imagination: sacred geography, geopolitical paranoia, plutonium, glaciers, the Ganges, and the haunting possibility that something buried decades ago might still remain…
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