In 1935 102 cane toads were introduced in Eastern
Australia as a tool to control the cane beetle, a local pest to
sugar cane. Today there are over 200 million cane toads in Australia,
which besides poisoning pets and humans as well as depleting native fauna has directly
cost local governments hundreds of thousands of dollars to control, on top of
the other economic losses caused by the introduced species. 1
This is not a story about toads though. This is a story
about a virus the United
States introduced to the internet which
could have much greater consequences than some toads down under. This is a
story about the United States
authorizing acts of war against Iran
over the enrichment of nuclear fuel.
