The US-Saudi Arabia nuclear deal: could it all go wrong?

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  Once upon a time, there was a country in the Middle East with a pretty good relationship with the United States.

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  It wanted to develop nuclear power and the US president encouraged it.

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  Thought it could help build peace between nations.

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  Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States

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  does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

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  He called it atoms for peace.

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  To devote its entire heart and mind to find the way

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  by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death,

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  but consecrated to his life.

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  So the US gave that country its first test nuclear reactor and trained its scientists.

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  Washington was clear-eyed about the risks.

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  It saw that the foreign dictatorship could collapse and that, quote,

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  an aggressive successor might be more ambitious about this nuclear program.

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  But the thing is, that country was Iran.

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  And the prediction came true.

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  Could history repeat itself?

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  It might do.

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  The United States has signed a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia

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  and is considering letting the kingdom enrich uranium for energy purposes.

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  From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redmond in Paris.

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