The Nanda Devi Mystery

How India and America Lost a Nuclear Device

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The Nanda Devi Mystery

Written by: Asiaville
Narrated by: Sashi Kumar
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The Nanda Devi Mystery: How India and America Lost a Nuclear Device is the thoroughly riveting and sometimes bizarre story of how India and America tried to install a nuclear-powered surveillance device on top of the Himalayas to snoop on China and then lost it forever. Narrated by Sashi Kumar and produced by Asiaville, it is the dramatic story of Cold War geopolitics and how the frenzy of the nuclear arms race pushed two nations to do the unthinkable. But, it is also the awe-inspiring tale of some of the world's finest mountaineers who doubled up as high-altitude spies and put themselves at unimaginable risk to execute a wild idea.

Written by Angshuman Choudhury and Directed & Narrated by Sashi Kumar.

©2023 Asiaville Interactive Pvt Ltd. (P)2023 Asiaville Interactive Pvt Ltd. Asia India Military South Asia Weapons & Warfare
Episodes
  • Episode 1: The “Machine”

    Episode 1: The “Machine”
    Jul 20 2023
    As a race between the world’s two biggest superpowers to develop the most powerful atomic bomb intensifies, so does their mutual desire to spy on each other. Strangely, that mind-boggling history is linked to rumours about a recent avalanche in the valley overlooking the Nanda Devi.
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    36 mins
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  • Episode 2: The Dragon Enters the Room

    Episode 2: The Dragon Enters the Room
    Jul 20 2023
    Even as the US continues to obsess over the Soviet Union, the so-called “Far East” gives birth to two formidable communist empires. The Americans would quickly realise that they had underestimated Mao’s China and Kim Il-Sung’s North Korea.
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    30 mins
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  • Episode 3: The Dragon Breathes Fire

    Episode 3: The Dragon Breathes Fire
    Jul 20 2023

    Mao makes it clear that he wants the atomic bomb. Zhou Enlai says China wants “peaceful existence”. The doublespeak confounds both America and the Soviet Union. But, a third major power sits up and takes notice - India. The stage is set for one of the strangest and most intense Himalayan adventures.
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    28 mins
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Writing & narration both are top notch. I was trying to sleep listening it, it kept me awake instead.

Keeps you hooked

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An intriguing story of a joint spying project of India and US. Nicely narrated and kept guessing what will happen next.

An intriguing failed spying project

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The narration is simply mind blowing. An Intriguing & alarming cold war tale worth listening.

Definitely worth the buck!

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One needs to listen for the way it is presented spoken and for the history itself.

Good podcast. Informative

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Superb script and narration complemented by intense and exhilarating music. Pls publish book in hard copy.

Good Script and Narration

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