September 1, 2023
CBS Eye on the World interviews NPEC’s Executive Director on “Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Japan: The Middle East and East Asia proliferation & What is to be done?”
Is MBS’s threat to buy Chinese nuclear technology and reactors extortion to get the US to support Saudi aspirations to enrich uranium (and so get to the brink of making bombs)?
Does a “peaceful” nuclear energy plant give a state a leg up on getting a nuclear weapon?
Is the Pentagon’s reluctance to expand AUKUS nonnuclear defense projects to Japan and South Korea warranted and do we have to worry about these Asian allies going nuclear?
Why Oppenheimer and his compatriots thought spreading nuclear power with only occasional inspections would risk spreading the bomb