Cyber Warfare Is Real — Should We Blame the U.S. and Israel For Starting It?

In late 2009, something almost laughably scary started happening at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran: centrifuges — slim cylinders containing powerful rotors used to enrich uranium — began exploding.

It wasn’t clear why. Or how. The operating data for the impacted centrifuges gave the impression they were functioning at normal levels, and when technicians monitoring that data received visual or aural clues that not all was well, the emergency shutdown system refused to initiate.