A Bomb for the Saudis?

Media reports suggest that the Trump administration has agreed not only to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia but to allow the country to enrich its own uranium. This raises two key questions. Why must Iran’s civil nuclear program be bombed into oblivion by the US and Israel to prevent it developing nuclear weapons, if Saudi Arabia is now to be handed the means to do precisely that? And if Saudi Arabia really needs to generate more electricity by some other means than burning oil, why would it choose nuclear power over solar and wind?

Clearly, this is all about the Saudis acquiring the capacity to at least threaten to develop nuclear weapons. And it’s another gift to the struggling reactor developer, Westinghouse. More