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Parsing Trump’s Decision to (Maybe) Give Uranium Enrichment to Saudi Arabia
['Richard Nephew']
War on the Rocks
On June 22, the United States announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia.
Since then, questions have emerged about other Saudi nuclear activities, though these have been unsubstantiated and denied.
But, according to press reports attributed to U.S. sources, the United States abandoned this objective in its negotiations under Trump.
In particular, Russia and China have been winning contracts while the United States has fallen off the map.
Potential Path ForwardChanges should be made to the nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, building on the foundation of what has been agreed.