I didn't mean to paint this doc necessarily over the top bias, because it's not, IMO. The first half is spent explaining the masterpiece of this technological wonder, STUXNET. Why it was crafted, its characteristics, and its ultimate use. Mossad was explicitly blamed for allowing this virus to escape, and I don't take that claim at face value in view of the hyper-partisan fix we're now in. But, I haven't fact checked this claim and don't know if its veracity can even be realistically expected, either way.
Most profound is the claim that STUXNET is to cyber warfare what the atomic bomb was to kinetic warfare; a world forever changed and a genie without a bottle. BTW, after its intended target and subsequent 'escape' it first appeared in Belarus. The last Stalinist nation in Europe and a Russian fief. Russian GRU/FSB can only improve on STUXNET's original design, and that genie is going to re-appear. This renders EMP technology old school slop compared to the surgical deployment of STUXNET.
For instance, an EMP offensive would trigger a thousand China Syndromes in America. Ground forces would find it impossible to go in for mop up operations, and so the terrible beauty of STUXNET. To surgically bypass nuclear power plants the way Iran's were surgically targeted.
what ails most madmen is realitys grasp or escape, a paralysis of analysis
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