The report didn’t spell it out. But buried in its technical indicators, analysts had included a snippet of code from one of the attacks. The code made clear that Russia’s hackers had breached the most alarming target of all: 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
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