Wolf Creek, the 1200-megawatt nuclear power plant near Burlington, Kansas. This was no espionage attack. The Russians were mapping out the plant’s networks for a future attack; they had already compromised the industrial engineers who maintain direct access to the reactor controls and radiation monitors that could affect the kind of nuclear meltdowns the world had only witnessed in Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. This was Stuxnet. Only it wasn’t the United States doing the hacking. It was Russia. And the goal wasn’t to stop the boom. It was to trigger one.
