WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Early on, U.S. President Obama secretly ordered sophisticated attacks on computer systems running Iran's key nuclear plants, participants in the program said.
Obama decided to accelerate the cyberattacks despite an element accidentally becoming public during the summer of 2010 because of a programming error, The New York Times reported Friday. The programming error allowed the element to escape Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment plant and distributed it on the Internet.