* CRITICAL THINKING

AND PROBLEM
SOLVING
TOPIC:-OPERATION HAT
* Problem: the first nuclear test made by China
In 1964, China had conducted its first nuclear
tests in the western province of Xinjiang,
stunning American intelligence agencies, who
thought the Chinese were still years away from
nuclear capability. America wanted to track
nuclear activity of china.
* America was shocked seeing china becoming
superpower. After this India and USA decided
to jointly keep watch on the china and signed a
secret pact to work together and keep close
watch on the activities of the China.
*Solution:The aim of putting the plutonium-run device on
Nanda Devi in 1965 was to track nuclear and missile tests in
China.

Plutonium device included 

1)   
a 17-kilogram nuclear assembly

2)   
five kilograms of plutonium 238 and 239 that powered the
nuclear device

Six Kilogram of Plutonium was used by the atomic bomb,

which destroyed, which was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

*Manmohan Singh Kohli, a Navy commander assigned to the

Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), was the expedition’s
leader. 
* WHY THE MISSION FAILED?
As winter began to fall, they battled against time.

Kohli informed the situation to New Delhi and got permission to stop the mission and
to secure the generator and the sensor at camp four, so they didn’t have to carry
them all over again next year.

six Sherpas found a suitable rock cavity. 

Half the loads were sheltered there and the rest secured to the rock with nylon ropes.

After a full winter’s rest and lots of planning, Kohli’s team returned to Nanda Devi in
early May 1966.

The plan was to climb back to camp four, unburdened by the loads; the team would
pick up the equipment where it had been secured the previous year, and simply take
it on the final ascent to the summit.

When the team reached the camp four where the loads were hidden, the team got
shocked The loads were missing, and the rock to which they had been secured was
gone as well due to heat emited by Snap 19C. It was clear that an avalanche had
swept away the rock—and the equipment—during the winter, leaving behind no trace
of the generator.

After that next 2 years American and Indian government tried to search the nuclear
device  but in vain. They never found that
* What the solution now?
* India and America decided to keep quiet so
people do not panic and china would not be
alerted. Search operations were made but
unsuccessful.
* People’s life was kept in danger for ACHIEVING
peace. Plutonium’s half live is 88 years and it
is still radiating.
* Same device was made again and kept on the
top of nanda kot mountain. Nanda Devi was
closed for mountain expenditure.
* In 1967, Operation Hat finally scored a success.
But still one nuclear device is missing which is
dangerous for everyone.
* What we learnt?
* PROBLEM CAN BE USED TO SOLVE ITSELF
* Some Examples:
* Nuclear device is used to detect nuclear
experiments.
* Poison is used mostly to cure poison in body.
* Radioactive materials are used to cure cancer
which itself cause cancer.
* Noise made my students is reduced by
professors by shouting even loudly.
* Computer virus is used to stop virus attacks.
* Bacterias are used to cure disease made by
bacteria themselves.