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Why Was Stuxnet Attack Called Operation Olympic Games?

The Pentagon chose Olympic Games as the code name for the Stuxnet operation against Iran. But that ruins the whole point, writes Andrew Roberts, who traces the history of code names back to World War II when the British had a lot of silly ones.

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