The US laid down plans several years ago to carry out a cyberattack against Iran if the nuclear peace talks failed, according to a new documentary film covered in the Times of Israel.<br />The plan, under the name Nitro Zeus, would have taken down Iran's communication systems, air defenses and critical parts of its power grid.<br />Nitro Zeus was developed in the early years of the Obama presidency, according to the New York Times, and was a contingency plan in the event that Iran somehow attacked the US or one of its Middle East allies.<br />The plan was thought to be an alternative to launching an all-out war and was invested in heavily by the US administration.<br />Tens of millions of dollars went into implanting elements into Iranian computer networks in order, according to the Pentagon, to "prepare the battlefield."<br />The project also involved thousands of US military and intelligence personnel, the NYT reports.
