{"id":38789,"date":"2019-04-04T23:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38789"},"modified":"2019-04-04T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:22:50","slug":"will-saudi-arabia-go-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38789","title":{"rendered":"Will Saudi Arabia go nuclear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"75.9594843462\">\n<p>Last year, Saudi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/mohammed-bin-salman.html\">Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> warned that &#8220;if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iran.html\">Iran<\/a> develops a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, Saudi Arabia is said to be a few months away from completing its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/approves-secret-nuclear-power-work-saudi-arabia-190328053752802.html\">first nuclear reactor<\/a> and some arms control experts are alarmed.<\/p>\n<p>Photos have been published reportedly showing the reactor site in the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology on the outskirts of Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is apparently nearly completed around a vessel intended to contain atomic fuel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/saudi-arabia.html\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> is yet to sign up to an international framework aimed at ensuring atomic programmes are not used to build weapons.<\/p>\n<p>What does this all mean for an already tense and volatile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/regions\/middleeast.html\">Middle East<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:\u00a0<\/strong>Hazem Sika<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Fraihat &#8211; Associate professor of conflict resolution at the Doha Institute<\/p>\n<p>Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm &#8211; Professor of journalism at the Fars Media Faculty under the Applied Sciences University<\/p>\n<p>Mark Fitzpatrick &#8211; Director of the non-proliferations and nuclear policy programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman warned that &#8220;if Iran develops a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit&#8221;.\u00a0 Now, Saudi Arabia is said to be a few months away from completing its first nuclear reactor and some arms control experts are alarmed. Photos have been published reportedly showing the reactor site in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}