The U.S., Israel, Stuxnet and the Iranian Nuclear Bomb

[HBox]

This is as fascinating an article as I've ever read. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41097319/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/)

The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.
Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own.

[spoon]

I've read a lot about this and while it's good their capabilities have been downgraded substantially, I can't help but feel the US is extremely vulnerable to this type action in so many different areas of concern. Perhaps our electric grid or worse? Some are so antiquated they'd be easy targets with devastating results. Hopefully they learned how to defend against such attacks as well.

[A.J.]

Let's do the same thing to North Korea.

[hanso]

Let's do the same thing to North Korea.

There are some rumblings that they are self destructing. And China will be showing up with troops to protect their own ports and borders. Also that China has some fancy hardware now in stealth planes and long-range ballistic missiles.

It might be a good thing to stop pumping in so much money to them in trade. (IMO).

[sailor]

NK has computers?

[booster11373]

There are some rumblings that they are self destructing. And China will be showing up with troops to protect their own ports and borders. Also that China has some fancy hardware now in stealth planes and long-range ballistic missiles.

It might be a good thing to stop pumping in so much money to them in trade. (IMO).

But America needs its cheap crap!

[Dan 'Hampton]

NK has computers?



Exactly.

[Crash]

There are some rumblings that they are self destructing.

Links?

I'm not calling you out and I don't disagree, I'm just interested and North Korea scares the crap out of me.

[hanso]

Didn't notice. Google it.
The last story I read on it. Was on medical conditions or the lack of it. That story should be around. This was just a blanket statement to tell why China would be sending troops.

[Judge Smails]

Me say Iran could avoid problem if only they listen to Carby the Carbonite Monster.

[A.J.]

NK has computers?

Exactly.

They probably got them from China....who got them from us.

[Barnaby Jones]

Looks like this may not have been a great idea!!!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ap-iran-nuclear-virus,0,7465553.story

VIENNA (AP) — The control systems of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant have been penetrated by a computer worm unleashed last year, according to a foreign intelligence report that warns of a possible Chernobyl-like disaster once the site becomes fully operational.

Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, also has raised the specter of the 1986 reactor explosion in Ukraine, but suggested last week that the danger had passed.

The report, drawn up by a nation closely monitoring Iran's nuclear program and obtained by The Associated Press, said such conclusions were premature and based on the "casual assessment" of Russian and Iran scientists at Bushehr.

With control systems disabled by the virus, the reactor would have the force of a "small nuclear bomb," it said.

"The minimum possible damage would be a meltdown of the reactor," it says. "However, external damage and massive environmental destruction could also occur ... similar to the Chernobyl disaster."