Stuxnet: How a USB Drive Destroyed 1,000 Nuclear Centrifuges — A Technical Deep Dive

Stuxnet: How a USB Drive Destroyed 1,000 Nuclear Centrifuges — A Technical Deep Dive In 2010, the world discovered that a piece of software had done something previously considered impossible: it caused real, physical destruction to industrial machinery — without anyone in the target facility knowing it was happening. This is the story of Stuxnet. Not the headlines version. The technical one. Background: The Target Iran's Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant operated roughly 9,000 IR-1 centrifuges spinn