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In 1982 the CIA rigged a logic bomb that blew up a Siberian pipeline—it created an explosion of three kilotons, as much as a small nuclear device.†
p. 26.1

nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
At least with nuclear weapons you know they're scary—Hiroshima, Bikini—but with cyber, nobody knows how much damage they'll cause if they let them loose, and they're merrily sticking them into each others' infrastructure like candy canes on a doomsday Christmas tree.†
p. 26.3
Stuxnet, the virus that had taken down the Iranian nuclear processing plants, had used about ten zero-days to get inside the systems it attacked.†
p. 41.1
The only other times our military have been at DEFCON 3 were the Cuban Missile Crisis in '62, when we were at the brink of nuclear war with Russia—†
p. 81.7
—the Yom Kippur War of '73 when Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel, nearly triggering another nuclear war—†
p. 81.8 *
The problem is that we're trying to use the same technology—the internet—for social networking and to run nuclear power plants.†
p. 243.8
The real problem was that, to contain the terrifying danger of nuclear weapons, the politicians and military had built statecraft, and rules of engagement, based on deterrence against known adversaries.†
p. 343.6

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