Source: Today, in politics and conflicts, fighting is not limited to bombs and guns. The advanced weapon is technology. Countries fight with cyber warfare.
That’s why Israel is known for its strategic attacks on Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has been trying to build nuclear weapons, while Israel wants to make sure no one in the region has these dangerous weapons, especially not a country that’s not friendly to them. Israel, along with the United States, came up with a plan called Operation Olympic Games.
It’s a secret plan that has both old-fashioned spying and new computer tricks to stop Iran’s nuclear program. A computer virus called Stuxnet was used in Operation Olympic Games. It’s a deceitful virus that penetrates Iran’s nuclear reactors and causes disaster.
By doing this, it makes it much harder for Iran to build atomic weapons. This plan didn’t happen overnight. It took years of planning and hard work.
Even though Stuxnet was only discovered in 2010, work on it was ongoing for a long time. It shows how Israel was ready to use new technology to protect itself. Israel did a very careful planning.
Instead of doing big attacks that hurt a lot of innocent people, They only hurt the things they need to, making it hard for Iran to build nuclear weapons without hurting anyone else. These attacks negatively impacted Iran’s nuclear weapons program. As a result, Iran had to rethink how to protect its machines from cyber threats.
This setback delayed Iran’s nucle.
