BRUSSELS — A recent cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear program could have triggered a disaster comparable to the one in Chernobyl 25 years ago, Russia’s envoy to NATO said Wednesday.
Dmitry Rogozin urged NATO to join Moscow in investigating who created and unleashed the mysterious and destructive computer worm known as Stuxnet. The virus hit Iran’s nuclear facilities last year, temporarily crippling its uranium enrichment program, which can make both nuclear fuel and the fissile core of warheads.
Iran is under four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze the activity, which it says it needs to create fuel for a future nuclear power network.
Rogozin told journalists at NATO headquarters that the virus could have caused the control system of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor to malfunction, leading to the
