David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Jul
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Well, the first concern people are worried about has to do with Saudi Arabia itself.
It's made pretty clear that if Iran ever gets a nuclear weapon at some point in the future, it's going to build one, too.
But right now, it doesn't have the fuel to go do that.
If, at the end of the day, the Saudis get what's called the nuclear fuel cycle, that they are allowed to go produce and enrich their own uranium, the concern is that the same engineers who are enriching to 3% to go feed Saudi Arabia's new nuclear reactors could, on their night job, go over to some secret laboratory and enrich up to 90%.
and be able to go build a bomb.
That's right.
And we've seen it happen before.
North Korea said it was just producing nuclear fuel for its reactors before it built the bomb.
Iran has always maintained that its nuclear program is completely civilian in nature.
We don't believe them.
And so in the Saudi case...
If, in fact, they ultimately end up being able to produce their own nuclear fuel, the world is going to want to know that that's not being diverted to a bomb project.
That's right.
But there are other concerns.
So remember that United Arab Emirates deal that I mentioned to you?
Right.
Yep.
It's got a little codicil in it that says if any country in the region gets a better deal than we got, we have the opportunity to go back and have consultations with the United States about whether we should get that deal as well.
Absolutely.
It's like the most favored nation treaty for nuclear power, right?
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