What Is The Stuxnet Virus Affect Nuclear Weapon?

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When you think of the word virus's nuclear weapons does not usually come to mind, but, in 2009, engineers working for the U.S. government built the first virus to disrupt nuclear development in Iran. Stuxnet was developed in January 2009 in the form of a thumb drive to attack Iran's uranium plants. The Stuxnet virus is by far the most influential virus and changed the view cyber-attacks in the future. The virus is defined as a piece of code that can copy itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data. At that time viruses were not known to be used to attack countries, most viruses were motivated by money and moral beliefs. In the early 2000s Iran was gaining nuclear power and the U.S. knew they were in the wrong hands. As the rise of viruses grew the CIA knew they could take advantage of cyber-attacks. Couple years later they had a lethal virus capable of damaging uranium plants all over Iran. …show more content…

government. This virus was then converted in the form of a thumb drive. The government investigated other businesses associated with the uranium plants helping develop nuclear weapons, through this they were able to transmit the virus into their computers which later spread through to the uranium plants. In a matter of weeks, almost all of Iran's uranium plants were infected. The Stuxnet virus was created to spin centrifuges out of control in the uranium plants and it did just that setting Iran’s nuclear development back and costing a lot of

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