<i>&gt; In practice, there was an initial period of everything that wasn&#x27;t bolted down disappearing from silos, and the response was to fill them with concrete to prevent any further access. What then happened is gangs came in the dead of night with diggers and drills and unearthed silos, and took who knows what.</i><p>Yeah, and it wasn&#x27;t just in the silos, either. The notorious arms smuggler Viktor Bout (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Viktor_Bout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Viktor_Bout</a>), for instance, built the private air force he used to deliver his goods around the world by grabbing Soviet Air Force transport planes wherever he could. The story goes that his people even pried one off a pedestal that had been placed in front of an air force base as a display piece.