'The fact that it hasn't happened does not mean it won't. There are still about 16,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Terrorists only need to steal one.'Eric Schlosser's chilling piece of reportage, first published in the New Yorker, tells the incredible story of how three Catholic pacifists - including an eighty-two-year-old nun - broke into a high-security weapons complex in Tennessee. Schlosser uncovers the truth about the perilous state of our security in today's nuclear age.'Schlosser's reportage is as good as it gets' GQ

Author Biography

Eric Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness, as well as the co-author of a children's book, Chew on This. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, the Nation and Vanity Fair, and he was an executive producer on the films Fast Food Nation and There Will Be Blood and a co-producer of the documentary Food Inc.