Derailment Attempts
The New York Times has reported that the Stuxnet computer worm appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges, and has delayed the Iranian's nuclear weapons capability. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has started that Iran's progress had been set back years, possibly until 2015. The worm is believed to cause centrifuges to spin out of control damaging themselves, while a pre-recorded version of safety displays is played, showing what normal operations looked like to plant operators while the centrifuges were being destroyed. The computers of the nuclear facilities are not connected to the Internet, so it is likely that a recruited agent uploaded the virus from the inside using a USB port.
The United States has neither confirmed nor denied any involvement with the Stuxnet virus. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, industrial espionage/sabotage is highly effective, and many industrialised countries are extremely vulnerable to it.
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