The Stuxnet malware attacks on Iranian nuclear sites have heightened cyber security concerns. Stuxnet and cyberpower more generally are understood in a variety of ways, but Stuxnet specifically, being viewed as the digital equivalent of fire and forget missiles, harrows planners with the specter of a cyber event as catastrophic in its sphere as nuclear war between the superpowers threatened to be in the last century. The contention here is that it is more constructive to conceive of Stuxnet as special operations in cyberspace, with strengths and weaknesses corresponding to conventional special operations. However it is viewed, Stuxnet provides an opportunity and motivation for considering cyber attacks more widely as an instrument of strategy and policy