Are Cyber-Weapons Effective? Assessing Stuxnet's Impact on the Iranian Enrichment Programme

TY - JOUR

T1 - Are Cyber-Weapons Effective?

T2 - Assessing Stuxnet's Impact on the Iranian Enrichment Programme

AU - Barzashka, Ivanka

PY - 2013/4

Y1 - 2013/4

N2 - When news of Stuxnet first emerged, many thought that it had caused a major setback to Iran's uranium-enrichment programme. Ivanka Barzashka argues instead that while Stuxnet may have had the potential to seriously damage Iranian centrifuges, evidence of the worm's impact is circumstantial and inconclusive. Her analysis of the related data shows that the 2009 version of Stuxnet was neither very effective nor well-timed and, in hindsight, may have been of net benefit to Tehran.

AB - When news of Stuxnet first emerged, many thought that it had caused a major setback to Iran's uranium-enrichment programme. Ivanka Barzashka argues instead that while Stuxnet may have had the potential to seriously damage Iranian centrifuges, evidence of the worm's impact is circumstantial and inconclusive. Her analysis of the related data shows that the 2009 version of Stuxnet was neither very effective nor well-timed and, in hindsight, may have been of net benefit to Tehran.

U2 - 10.1080/03071847.2013.787735

DO - 10.1080/03071847.2013.787735

M3 - Article

SN - 0307-1847

VL - 158

SP - 48

EP - 56

JO - RUSI Journal

JF - RUSI Journal

IS - 2

ER -