Gonna echo my comment on a similar post:

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So naturally Israel and we hacked them - in a true destructive, aggressive, offensive, casus belli - with the stuxnet virus.

Which of course then spread into the wild and did tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of damage elsewhere too.

And like hypocrites with no use for the Christian golden rule, we naturally we didn't give a sh*t.

I respect that point of view, even though I am quite certain that is not the unanimous perspective of all of Iran.

That said, I think the meme still applies. The Japanese are hyper-competent, but look at Fukushima Daiichi. That thing could still kill us all. I am not convinced that the Iran counterstrike was an example of incompetence, but if it is any form of nuclear tech is a threat to everyone.

It seems more likely that the counterstrike was a deliberate miss, which in my opinion was sensible. Either way, I'd prefer a different solution.

The Japanese make mistakes, but iirc in that instance they built with a model we imposed on them. Plus I think there was a weird significant conspiracy factor involved, but I pass over as not relevant to the main question. We do seem to agree it was intended as a nonlethal face saver.