8 Talia sat at her desk. She still felt a little uneasy and began to second guess herself. The story her grandfather had retold had been wild. But at the same time, she couldn’t help but notice a number of things she knew to be true. As a graduate student, she had spent an entire semester studying the various incidents involving nuclear materials from around the world. She also knew that globally, over one hundred devices had gone missing over the years. Most had been lost during the Cold War between Russia and the United States and were still unaccounted for. During that time period, tensions had been so high between the nations that it had become common to load nuclear weapons onto military aircraft. It was a practice still in use in Israel today. Although a few of the devices had di

