Stuxnet: The Cyberweapon That Sabotaged Iran's Nuclear Program

A piece of code physically destroyed thousands of Iranian centrifuges — opening the age of digital sabotage and reshaping the whole nuclear standoff. Episode 9 focuses on Stuxnet: the covert U.S.–Israeli cyber campaign that wrecked centrifuges at Natanz without a shot fired, and what it meant for a crisis that had no military off-ramp. We explain how the attack worked in plain terms, why it bought time without resolving anything, and how crushing banking and oil sanctions — plus a secret backchannel through Oman — began pushing Iran toward the negotiating table.