Bøker av Roman Poroshyn

Airplanes are created to fly, not to hang down from a ceiling in museums or rust in hangars. This statement is especially true, when it comes to the U-2 spy plane, a.k.a. "Dragon Lady". This relict of the Cold War is still in operation after more than fifty years since its first flight in 1955. Designed for high flight the U-2 is at home at an altitude of more than 70,000 feet. At an altitude so high, land under the plane does not appear to be flat anymore. A pilot can see the curvature of the surface of the Earth. It is like being on a spaceship with one exception. Gravity is still present.The U-2 continues to offer the response time unmatched by spy satellites, the ability to communicate directly with troops on the ground, and lower costs compared to drones. This illustrated book presents some interesting facts from the Dragon Lady's rich past and exciting present.

The idea of creating a computer worm capable of attacking uranium enrichment facilities could not come up out of nowhere. It all began with two isolated events, which happened in different geographical places and years apart from each other. The first event took place in India near Pakistan's eastern border in 1974. The second event happened in the coastal city of Taranto, Italy, in 2003. Despite the fact that both events took place outside Iran, they combined to create a background for everything that later would become known as the Stuxnet computer worm and its cyber-attacks against the Iranian uranium enrichment program. For this reason alone, those events and their aftermath deserve a closer look.This brief book puts the creation of the computer worm Stuxnet in context. It follows an amazing journey of uranium enrichment centrifuges from the Soviet Union to Western Europe, then to Pakistan, and finally from Malaysia to Libya to the USA to Israel, where they were utilized to test the infamous computer worm Stuxnet. It also looks at unsuccessful attempts of sabotage, which had become the main weapon of choice for Western secret services in their secret war against Iranian nuclear program.