> It's easier to attack than defend
Interestingly, I'd wager that very little infrastructure in developed countries was designed with any thought of defending it from it's own citizens.
Interestingly, I'd wager that very little infrastructure in developed countries was designed with any thought of defending it from it's own citizens.
The electrical grid is largely ignored because it’s so big and distributed over such a large area it’s difficult for small groups to attack it successfully. So the focus is on limiting cascading failures. Shooting equipment only caused local damage and things got back to normal in a week.
It was unpleasant for those affected, but you can catch people conducting repeated attacks a lot easier than you can harden all this infrastructure.
Russia has been bombing Ukraine infra from Oct, used thousands of missiles and things are still running - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_st....
running from the radiation released from the shelling of nuke plants, not running in the "performing normally" sense
"Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday"
https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c...
65 microSv or 65 µSv is a really trivial amount. It should inspire a yawn not a yikes.
Seems it was not from the shelling.
We think you're missing the larger point