{"id":349688,"date":"2018-02-24T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nuclear-nonproliferation-american-style\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:46:21","slug":"nuclear-nonproliferation-american-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nuclear-nonproliferation-american-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Nonproliferation, American Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100006\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100006\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-22-at-4.48.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"335\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Gwydion M. Williams | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cU.S. Chases a Saudi Deal\u201d ran the front page headline in the February 21 <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.\u00a0 The story continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Trump administration is pursuing a deal to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia despite the kingdom\u2019s refusal to accept the most stringent restrictions against the proliferation of nuclear weapons, U.S. officials say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Saudis have rejected restrictions on \u201cenriching uranium or reprocessing spent fuel\u201d: steps in building nuclear bombs.\u00a0 Robert Gleason, author of <em>The Nuclear Terrorist<\/em> (2014), stresses the ease with which \u201ca nuclear power reactor can become a nuclear bomb-fuel factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why would the Trump Administration do something so risky?\u00a0 (I didn\u2019t realize at first how funny that sentence is.)<\/p>\n<p>Back to the <em>WSJ<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cAdministration officials consider [the nuclear reactor sale] too important to pass up, especially when the U.S. nuclear industry is on the decline.\u201d\u00a0 And there you have it.\u00a0 Profits today, Armageddon tomorrow.\u00a0 The \u201cU.S. nuclear industry is on the decline.\u201d\u00a0 Instead of celebrating that fact, and going full speed ahead with development of renewable energy sources, the Trump Administration is dead set on keeping the nuclear industry alive, even if it has to administer a few thousand volts to the corpse.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same with the dying coal industry.\u00a0 Lenin boasted that \u201cThe capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.\u201d\u00a0 Lenin would be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/23\/nuclear-nonproliferation-american-style\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Gwydion M. Williams | CC BY 2.0 \u201cU.S. Chases a Saudi Deal\u201d ran the front page headline in the February 21 Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 The story continued: The Trump administration is pursuing a deal to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia despite the kingdom\u2019s refusal to accept the most stringent restrictions against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}