From Nick Warren
Am I alone in being totally bemused by James Oberg’s article
“The probe that fell to Earth”? (6 March, p 38).
Surely it is obvious to all why the US government invested time and effort in
retrieving the nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite Kosmos 954 from northwest
Canada in January 1978, albeit under the guise of a “nuclear cleanup” operation.
It must be equally clear why they are not interested in the remains of a
post-Cold War failed interplanetary Russian probe, no matter how many plutonium
pellets it was carrying.
Greenford, Middlesex
