Are Cyber-Weapons Effective? Assessing Stuxnet's Impact on the Iranian Enrichment Programme

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http://www.rusi.org/publications/journal/ref:A517E5BC42E13D/#.UZCpTIpDsdi

By Ivanka Barzashka
RUSI Journal, Apr 2013, Vol. 158, No. 2

When news of Stuxnet first emerged, many thought that it had caused a major 
setback to Iran’s uranium-enrichment programme. Ivanka Barzashka argues instead 
that while Stuxnet may have had the potential to seriously damage Iranian 
centrifuges, evidence of the worm’s impact is circumstantial and inconclusive. 
Her analysis of the related data shows that the 2009 version of Stuxnet was 
neither very effective nor well-timed and, in hindsight, may have been of net 
benefit to Tehran.

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