Documentary: U.S. planned new cyberattack against Iranian nuclear regime

Published February 17, 2016 5:08pm ET



In the event that negotiations to limit Iran’s nuclear program failed, the United States had a contingency plan to degrade the country’s facilities using a cyberattack code-named Nitro Zeus, a documentary released on Wednesday reveals.

Planning for the attack involved thousands of military and intelligence personnel, electronic implants that had been placed in Iranian systems, and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars.

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