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Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

You know, I really thought that the idea of S.A. wanting to get a nuclear reactor might have meant something to the political (students) on this board.

I am surprised that not one person has mentioned on the fact that not one country in the middle east or actually anywhere else for that matter except for the USA and maybe Russia has ever used thier nuclear reactor for simply energy reasons.

All nations except the original two (and the S.U. stole thier ideas from the US) used the domestic program to either make a weapons program or gain the knowledge to make one.

Even Japan is supposed to have a 6 month window to produce one if they really needed too.

Isn't the coincidence that a few weeks after a report from a couple of intelligence organisations accepting that they can't stop Iran from producing nukes from thier domestic program, the Saudi's decide they now need a domestic nuclear energy program.

I mean the Saudi's. Seriously.

Oh well, it should be fun in the future. Wink

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

The positions you articulate here sound very naive to my ears.

Israel's defensive needs, India and Pakistan's rivalry, as well as Tehran's current regional ambitions, set the stage for a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, cumulatively, decades ago, Summer Wine. Saudi Arabia, like others in the region, I suspect, has apparently taken steps to respond to this and defend itself against a potentially nuclear-armed Iran.

We will soon see another MAD tactical situation there, I am afraid.

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Agreed. They will likely soon do themselves in -- perhaps in our lifetimes, Mises. Allāhu Akbar.

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

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The positions you articulate here sound very naive to my ears.

Thank you for your response. Accept that I am naive to certain ideals and please explain further as to my mistakes.

I am interested in learning more.

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/24/did_the_tamil_tigers_try_to_buy_a_nuke

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I'm pretty sure Egypt and Syria have been working on nuclear "power" for some time. Remember a few years ago when Israel bombed a facility in Syria? Where there were North Korean "advisers"?

Article on Egypt's program

Australian firm to design Egyptian plant

And BBC article on the Syria-NK connection

So the KSA trying to develop nuclear power? Not so surprising.

Sergio Stefanuto · Joined: 14 May 2009 Location: UK

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007