Why We Wrote This In the wake of the U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal, other countries are asking whether they, too, need to develop nuclear power. And interest in nuclear power generation waned after several devastating incidents at power plants, most recently in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. Underlying the surging global interest in nuclear power and eventually nuclear weaponry, some experts say, is a waning of the established postwar thinking about the existential threat nuclear proliferation poses to humanity. “Given rising concerns about the stability of the international security order, the Saudi deal can’t help but encourage more states to hedge their bets for nuclear weapons.” For some, the biggest risk would come if others in the region simply don’t trust the restrictions the Saudi deal purports to include.