Category: Industrial Sabotage

• Diesel Engine Sabotage

  An industrial-era theory claiming that oil and gasoline interests targeted inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs connected to highly efficient diesel technology in order to keep transportation dependent on petroleum retail networks. In its classic form, the theory centers on Rudolf Diesel’s 1913 disappearance and later expands into a broader belief that efficient diesel passenger-car development was repeatedly suppressed to preserve the dominance of gasoline.

• Stuxnet

  A highly specialized cyber weapon uncovered in 2010 that crossed from digital intrusion into physical sabotage by targeting Siemens industrial-control systems tied to Iran’s Natanz uranium-enrichment facility.