[spywaregorilla]

Seems unlikely that you could pay off a low level military dude who has the capacity to personally steal an atomic weapon.

[happyopossum]

Especially when “losing” that bomb (or in the case we’re discussing, 2 nuclear cores) also entails “losing” yourself and the entire crew of your B-47.

[tester756]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko

[spywaregorilla]

I feel like the implication was clearly that it was done on the sly. Outright defecting to the other country is quite a bit different from being paid to look the other way.

[pydry]

Losing != stealing

[spywaregorilla]

You're going to pay someone a large sum of money to lose an atomic weapon? Why?

It's probably harder to lose something than steal it because stealing implies there's another party to remove it from the location it was lost at.