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A COVID action has been launched against Iran's nuclear program.

But this time on the rest is classified.

We look at how the Obama administration decides to accelerate the targeting of Iran's centrifuges in a way that ultimately leads it to going out of control.

There was no consensus within the Obama administration about how these weapons should be used.

Even while Obama was approving new strikes on the Iranian nuclear plant, he harbored

his own doubts.

In meetings in the situation room in the

first year of his presidency, Obama had repeatedly questioned whether the United States was setting a

precedent using a cyber weapon to cripple a nuclear facility that the country would one day regret.

This was, he and others noted, exactly the kind of precision-guided weapon that other nations would

someday learn to turn on us. It was the right question, said one senior official who came

into the administration after the Stuxent attacks were over, but no one understood how quickly

that day would come. Well, welcome to the rest is classified. I am David McCloskey. And I'm Gordon Carrera.

And that is David Sanger writing in his book, The Perfect Weapon, about, of course, the Stuxnet

virus, this effort by the allegedly, Gordon, I guess, the United States of Israel to disrupt

and delay Iran's nuclear program. We have been looking

over the last couple episodes at the story of Iran's nuclear program and really some of the first

concerted attempts to sabotage it and take it down, not with bombs, as we've seen recently,

but with this cyber weapon.

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