Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next?

by Matt Irvine, Colin Kahl, Melissa Dalton

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 If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next? that the prospects for Saudi reactive proliferation are lower than the conventional wisdom suggests.

52 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 19, 2013