Is Saudi Arabia Building A Nuclear Weapons Program?

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Is Saudi Arabia Building A Nuclear Weapons Program? – OpEd
Nauman Sadiq
7-8 minutes

David Sanger and William Broad reported in The New York Times [1] on Thursday that before Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was implicated in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies were trying to solve a separate mystery: was the prince laying the groundwork for building an atomic bomb?

According to the report, the Saudi heir apparent had been overseeing negotiations with the US Energy Department to get Washington to sell designs for nuclear power plants to the kingdom. The deal was worth upward of $80 billion, depending on how many plants Saudi Arabia decided to build.

But there is a hitch: Saudi Arabia insists on producing its own nuclear fuel. Such fuel can be used for benign or military purposes: if uranium is enriched to 4 percent purity, it can fuel a power plant; at 90 percent, it can be used for a bomb. Saudi Arabia has vast uranium reserves and there are currently five nuclear research centers operating in the kingdom.

Read more at: http://www.eurasiareview.com/29112018-is-saudi-arabia-building-a-nuclear-weapons-program-oped/

[Fishrrman]

"Is Saudi Arabia Building A Nuclear Weapons Program?"

The Saudis "build" very little of anything by themselves.

They have to hire outsiders to do the work.

Having said that, the answer to this question can probably be provided with certainty.
Ask the Israelis.