Stuxnet's secret twin Ralph Langner | Foreign Policy | 19 November 2013 Three-year study of the Stuxnet virus shows it was designed to slow down Iran's nuclear production line, not to destroy it.
Other than the contamination of drinking water, coastal flooding also has a negative impact on food production, leading to destroyed crop yields in a situation where the demand will grow further because of advancing overall population growth (19).
That official, Laura Hassell, said that City Opera had asked for the production to be destroyed once Portland was done with it.
The decision to destroy production in Syria – though not in Iraq, where the government in Baghdad has asked the US not to hit oil infrastructure – flows directly from President Barack Obama's strategic objective to "destroy and degrade" Islamic State.
Efforts by the Karzai administration to eradicate opium production by paying farmers to destroy their crops have failed because of a lack of money, violent demonstrations by farmers fearing their livelihoods were in jeopardy and the refusal of some local officials to destroy the crops.
This carnage can be traced back to the Seventies, after the US set out, successfully, to destroy indigenous production of 'Mexican Mud' heroin, poppies for which were ideally suited to the Pacific state of Sinaloa.
The discovery that North Korea has been secretly pumping climate-altering chemicals into the atmosphere in an attempt to destroy agricultural production across the US has sparked an international crisis.
A new research report notes that "there is strong evidence that Coalition strategy has aimed to destroy food production and distribution". (Translation: They are actively trying to starve the country into submission). Saudi Arabia is delaying and obstructing aid shipments and critical commercial goods such as food, fuel and medicine.
Re "Hide-and-Seek Among the Coca Leaves" (Letter From the Americas," news article, June 9), about efforts to destroy coca production in Colombia: Under Plan Colombia, the United States government has spent several billion dollars to dump carcinogenic defoliants on the crops of impoverished farmers.
Research on the pattern of bombing, carried out by emeritus professor Martha Mundy at the London School of Economics, concluded that in the first 17 months of the Saudi-led bombing campaign there was "strong evidence that coalition strategy has aimed to destroy food production and distribution" in areas controlled by the Houthis and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
