Saudi Arabia says it won't rule out building nuclear weapons

[WestVirginiaRebel]

UK Independent:

Saudi Arabia will not rule out building or acquiring nuclear weapons, the country’s ambassador to the United States has indicated.

 

Asked whether Saudi Arabia would ever build nuclear weapons in an interview with US news channel CNN, Adel Al-Jubeir said the subject was “not something we would discuss publicly”.

 

Pressed later on the issue he said: “This is not something that I can comment on, nor would I comment on.”

 

The ambassador’s reticence to rule out a military nuclear programme may reignite concerns that the autocratic monarchy has its eye on a nuclear arsenal.

 

Western intelligence agencies believe that the Saudi monarchy paid for up to 60% of Pakistan’s nuclear programme in return for the ability to buy warheads for itself at short notice, the Guardian newspaper reported in 2010.

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Hey, Mr. Nobel Peace prize winner-here's your "peace dividend..."

 

[Valin]

@WestVirginiaRebel

 

They'll just buy one or sixteen from Pakistan. As I understand it they helped fund it.

 

We've got a possible probable arms race involving the most powerful weapons in the most unstable part of the world....What could possibly go wrong!