The Stuxnet virus in 2010 wrought havoc on equipment that disabled 1,000 centrifuges being used by the Iranians to enrich uranium.
By JTA
Whistleblower Edward Snowden told a German magazine that Israel and the United States created the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed nuclear centrifuges in Iran.
Snowden made the statement as part of an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel in which he answered encrypted questions sent by security software developer Jacob Appelbaum and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. Excerpts of the interview were published Monday on the Spiegel website.
Snowden was asked if the U.S. National Security Agency partners “with other nations, like Israel?”