The Big Read: Nuke heist blows us away

The alarms have all been tripped. All of them. This isn't the familiar, daily smash-and-grab. This is huge. A heist to end all heists. We go to our windows, careful to stay out of sight. It's still far away, but the first reports are already flickering like sparks from a bulldozed lamppost: they're working on an international scale; the Russians are involved; they have earth-moving equipment and engineers.