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that she thought that he would be indebted to Professor Chen who did so much for him during his studies at NMSU and helped get a good job after his graduation. Nagib said that he worked very hard for his Ph. D. and that Chen benefited from his efforts no less than he did, and in any case Chen no longer lived in Israel or even considered himself as an Israeli patriot, so he had no qualms about inflicting destruction on Israel. Alia realized that he was really agitated and told him that he could confide in her.
    Nagib then told her about his turning point with regard to how he felt about the United States. He said that as a Muslim, not a religious fanatic just someone who was born as a simple Sunni Muslim, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 allegedly to disarm Iraq of atomic, biological and chemical weapons was an insult to Islam. But what really offended him deeply was the treatment Saddam Hussein received after he was captured, especially when a US paramedic wearing latex gloves probed his mouth with a flashlight – and this degrading scene was recorded on camera and displayed repeatedly on global television and all networks. He said that even the worst serial murderers were not treated like this, as long as they were not Arabs. That was the moment he understood that he will never be considered as an equal in the US and vowed to avenge this affront to his people and co-religionists. He told her that he had secretly named his plan Adrestia. When Alia asked him for the meaning of this word he said that in Greek mythology Adrestia was the goddess of revolt, just retribution, equilibrium and balance between good and evil. She was often portrayed as handmaiden of Nemesis, the famous goddess of revenge. He added that the presence of foreign non-Muslim forces, he used the term Modern Crusaders, on sacred Arab soil like Saudi Arabia with its holy places, and Jewish control of Jerusalem (Al Quds, he said) was unacceptable.
                  When Nagib laid out his plan to intercept a warhead during transport to or from the Lab she told him that there was no chance he could get away with it without a large armed force to back him up with the heist and then to smuggle the warhead out of the US and ship it to Israel. They discussed the matter and eventually came up with a few alternative plans.  One plan called for obtaining a compact nuclear weapon from a US storage site in Europe. This would be viable if Nagib could get a proper security clearance and a pretext to visit the facilities in Europe as an expert in analytical chemistry and learn about the security arrangements and devise a way to steal or highjack a suitable item. This too, required the military and financial support of an organization not an act an individual could carry out. Another option was to purchase such a weapon from one of the republics of the former Soviet Union, but this had been attempted unsuccessfully by much better connected and well funded terrorist groups and allegedly even by some sovereign states. 
    After a few sleepless nights and numerous daytime discussions Nagib and Alia hit upon a new idea. This held a much lower physical risk to them and didn't require use of armed force. They would somehow get hold of classified designs for the most advanced nuclear weapons in the Lab and use them to barter with a state that already had primitive nuclear devices or even inefficient weapons. They would hand over the advanced designs in return for a primitive device, even for an improvised nuclear device (IND). They could even make a demand that the IND would be delivered in an innocuous form in Israel, or at a site from which it could easily be shipped there. In order to do this they needed to gain access to the highly classified advanced designs and copy them.
    They returned to Albuquerque airport on Christmas day – when everybody else was heading in the opposite direction to Honolulu. They drove back to Los Alamos and settled back in their