Nuclear Weapons Cyber Vulnerabilities
Blaming Israel, Iran Vows Revenge for Blackout at Nuclear Site
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/world/middleeast/iran-israel-nuclear-site.html
Attacks on nuclear weapons facilities could well become consequential in succession to fashionable cyber attacks. What has been trivialized by the Natanz preening gambits (and Stuxnet earlier) could inspire more substantial aggression in other countries, including in Israel and still proliferating nuclear club aspirants and covert constructors.
From 1945 on control of nuclear research, technology and manufacture has been unsuccessful, along with other horrific biological, chemical and radiological contraptions. WMD terrorism of these mass murderous inventions has become a norm.
Cyber attacks are pinpricks by comparison to mass weapons testing, once physical now virtual with correlative released accounts of data-generated effectiveness, that is cyber-warnings of armageddons ready to go active.
Dickering with cyber or explosive assaults on nuclear facilities is playing with fire, entertainingly political, showboating, childish versions of what was once demonstrated by thousands of actual nuclear detonations, missile launches, satellite adventures, leaks of espionage operations on threatening facilities.
May be time to consider what proliferating attacks on nuclear facilities of the old guard, not the upstarts, would be like. WMDs, land-sea-air carriers and laboratories are widely scattered, less protected than Natanz, weapons delivery crews vulnerable, permissive action link (PAL) codes on the arms crackable.
PALs are cyber vulnerabilities of 0s and 1s truly terrifying.