1997, 60 Minutes interviewed former Russian Security Council secretary Aleksandr Lebed’, who admitted that Russia could not account for eighty of its Cold War “suitcase bombs” (small nuclear weapons that could be deployed by one person, potentially acting alone). But the Russian government had dismissed his claims, and that report was now more than three years old, and every day that a suitcase bomb didn’t detonate made the possibility of such a crisis a little less plausible.
