Iran nuclear program

As far as terrorism is concerned, the question of cyberterrorism should be raised (eg, an attack causing serious damage to a critical infrastructure). Until now only hackers were involved in cyberterrorism actions targeting industrial systems. In the nuclear sector, the computer worm Stuxnet, discovered in June 2010, was created to attack Iran s nuclear facilities it went via Microsoft Windows and targeted Siemens industrial control systems. The widely suspected probable target was the uranium enrichment infrastmcture in Iran the Iran nuclear program has indeed been damaged. 

Russia s open nuclear assistance to Iran during the building of the nuclear plant at Bushehr is the most obvious example. Several Russian nnclear institntes were placed on the U.S.-sanction d/v List in 2001 because of joint educational programs with states the United States considered nnsuitable see, for example, U S. Department of Commerce, Bnreau of Indnstiy and Secnrity, Entity List, Januaiy 9, 2004, http //www. bxa.doc.gov/Entities/Default.htm (as of April 30, 2004). 

Between the 1986 Chernobyl accident and mid-1990s, only one nuclear power station was conunissioned in Russia, the 4-unit Balakovo, with unit 3 being added to Smolensk. Economic reforms following the collapse of the Soviet Union meant an acute shortage of funds for nuclear developments. By the late 1990s, exports of reactors to Iran, China, and India were negotiated and Russia s stalled domestic construction program was revived as far as funds allowed. 

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