US Considering Nuclear Power for Saudi Arabia in Grand Bargain

US Considering Nuclear Power for Saudi Arabia in Grand Bargain

The Trump administration is reportedly pursuing a deal with Saudi Arabia that would be a pathway to developing a commercial nuclear power industry in the desert kingdom and maybe even lead to the enrichment of uranium on Saudi soil. U.S. pursuit of this deal should be scrapped because the United States would bear all the …

American billionaire Peter Thiel's obsession with atoms is nothing new in Silicon Valley. He once declared that the Manhattan Project, whose product was none other than the first atomic bomb, was the personification of how America "knew how to solve problems". He concluded his reflection with the thesis that the current United States focuses too much on "intangible things, software" and overlooks "the power of atoms, hardware". According to him,…

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s government is reportedly negotiating an agreement with Saudi Arabia that would pave the way for the development of a commercial nuclear industry in the desert kingdom and perhaps even lead to uranium enrichment on Saudi soil. The U.S. should abandon this agreement, as it would be the [...] This U.S. article considers nuclear power for Saudi Arabia within a grand deal was originally published in IPS News Agency

Ivan Eland - No Joke: US considering nuclear power for Saudi in grand bargain - Brave New Europe

Surprise — the Trump team’s latest bid for Saudi-Israel normalization goes way too far and appears to be a one-way street. Ivan R. Eland is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Director of the Independent Institute’s Center on Peace & Liberty. Previously he was Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues. He is the author of several books, the most rec…