This Unknown Lab In Idaho Is The US' Best Defense Against Cyber-Attacks

In the high desert some 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, the terrain is so rugged that the vehicle in which your correspondent was touring the facilities at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ended up with two shredded tyres. Originally set up in the 1940s to test naval artillery, the high-security government lab now worries about weapons of a different kind. Some of its elite engineers help protect power grids, telecoms networks and other critical infrastructure in America against cyber-attacks and o...