With Eye on Iran, Rivals Also Want Nuclear Power

Nuclear technology is now a race for all the countries in the Middle East. I'm sure many of them are fully intending to go to nuclear weapons, truly the only way to deter a threat of invasion or nuclear blackmail.
I can't believe this is good news for the world. I can't believe this new development helps Israel. Clearly, we will be seeing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East like the world has never seen.
Will they be so reluctant to use them? All we need is a radial group to take over one of the government and I believe, eventually, we will see nuclear war in the Middle East.
New York Times

Two years ago, the leaders of Saudi Arabia told international atomic regulators that they could foresee no need for the kingdom to develop nuclear power. Today, they are scrambling to hire atomic contractors, buy nuclear hardware and build support for a regional system of reactors.


So, too, Turkey is preparing for its first atomic plant. And Egypt has announced plans to build one on its Mediterranean coast. In all, roughly a dozen states in the region have recently turned to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna for help in starting their own nuclear programs. While interest in nuclear energy is rising globally, it is unusually strong in the Middle East.


“The rules have changed,” King Abdullah II of Jordan recently told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “Everybody’s going for nuclear programs.”


The Middle East states say they only want atomic power. Some probably do. But United States government and private analysts say they believe that the rush of activity is also intended to counter the threat of a nuclear Iran.


By nature, the underlying technologies of nuclear power can make electricity or, with more effort, warheads, as nations have demonstrated over the decades by turning ostensibly civilian programs into sources of bomb fuel. Iran’s uneasy neighbors, analysts say, may be positioning themselves to do the same.