{"id":396444,"date":"2019-02-19T22:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-saudi-could-use-sensitive-us-tech-to-make-nukes\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T22:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:36:52","slug":"presstv-saudi-could-use-sensitive-us-tech-to-make-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-saudi-could-use-sensitive-us-tech-to-make-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;Saudi could use sensitive US tech to make nukes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A congressional report reveals that the United States is rushing to transfer \u201chighly sensitive nuclear technology\u201d to Saudi Arabia, with President Donald Trump being \u201cdirectly engaged\u201d in the push.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives\u2019 Oversight and Reform Committee released the 24-page report on Tuesday, listing the actions taken by the Trump administration in an attempt to win government support for American firms to construct nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, in what could increase the risk of spreading nuclear weapons technology.<\/p>\n<p>The report is based on whistleblower accounts and documents showing communications between administration officials and nuclear power companies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cExperts worry that transferring sensitive U.S. nuclear technology could allow Saudi Arabia to produce nuclear weapons that contribute to the proliferation of nuclear arms throughout an already unstable Middle East,\u201d says the report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRoKhanna\/status\/1097896066207440896\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is shocking that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/02\/19\/589012\/Saudi-Arabia-United-States-sensitive-nuclear-technology-Trump-White-House\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A congressional report reveals that the United States is rushing to transfer \u201chighly sensitive nuclear technology\u201d to Saudi Arabia, with President Donald Trump being \u201cdirectly engaged\u201d in the push. The House of Representatives\u2019 Oversight and Reform Committee released the 24-page report on Tuesday, listing the actions taken by the Trump administration in an attempt to [&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-396444","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\/396444","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=396444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}