February 19, 2013
Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next?
It is taken for granted in Washington that Saudi Arabia will inevitably pursue nuclear weapons if Tehran succeeds in its quest for the bomb. However, CNAS Senior Fellow Colin Kahl, Visiting Fellow Melissa G. Dalton and Research Associate Matthew Irvine argue in their new report Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next? that the prospects for Saudi reactive proliferation are lower than the conventional wisdom suggests.
Authors
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Colin H. Kahl
Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation
Colin Kahl is the Steven C. Házy senior fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the faculty director of CISAC’s Program o...
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Matthew Irvine
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Melissa Dalton
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