In Not-Particularly-Good-Nuclear-News comes this tidbit, via the venerable Nuclear Threat Initiative's (NTI). Think Cyberwar is a fallacy? Think again.
"...the U.S. nuclear arsenal, U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday quoted National Nuclear Security Administration personnel as saying (see GSN, Oct. 25, 2011). Agency Administrator Thomas D’Agostino said his office must deal with computer strikes from a “full spectrum” of sources. “They’re from other countries’ (governments), but we also get fairly sophisticated nonstate actors as well,” he said. “The (nuclear) labs are under constant attack, the Department of Energy is under constant attack.” As many as 10 million “security significant cyber security events” afflict the nation’s nuclear security enterprise every 24 hours, an NNSA spokesman added..." via NTI's GSN
