As Nakasone assumed his new duties, his staff was still assessing the Russian attacks on our systems. It was not just Wolf Creek; the Russians had also targeted Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska, and an untold number of other operators whose identities we still do not know. They also discovered that the same Russian hackers that successfully dismantled the safety guards at the Saudi refinery had been doing “digital drive-bys” of our own chemical, oil, and gas operators in the United States. Russia was inching dangerously closer to attack.
