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Is it true: Stuxnet (US/Israeli Iran Nuclear Sabotage)?

Confirmed94% confidence

Yes — this is confirmed.

David Sanger's 2012 book Confront and Conceal, citing named US officials, confirmed Stuxnet's origin as a joint US-Israeli operation codenamed "Olympic Games", initiated under Bush and continued under Obama. Subsequent analysis by Symantec and Kaspersky confirmed the worm's capabilities matched Natanz's Siemens PLC centrifuge controllers. Iran acknowledged the attack in 2010. No formal US acknowledgement, but off-record confirmation from multiple former officials.

The claim

A sophisticated computer worm discovered in 2010 that sabotaged centrifuges at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility — later confirmed to have been developed jointly by the US (NSA/CIA) and Israel

Key evidence

Sanger (NYT) named-source confirmation

US government has not formally acknowledged

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