Looting a fridge is easy; you simply load it onto a truck. Plundering a nuclear power plant is much more complicated and dangerous, as Vladimir Putin’s marauders have discovered. In March they launched a reckless firefight to seize Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear facility. They captured it, and Russia now claims to own it. Through sheer good fortune, the shelling did not cause a nuclear accident.
