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Ed Markey: “The US-Saudi nuclear deal is about megatons, not megawatts. Trump should not be sharing nuclear bomb technology with a…”

On the recordOctober 17, 2026
The US-Saudi nuclear deal is about megatons, not megawatts. Trump should not be sharing nuclear bomb technology with a nation that US intelligence says may want nuclear weapons. Even worse, the deal fails to meet the nonproliferation Gold Standard, by allowing Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium, an essential step to producing a bomb, but not requiring the strongest international inspections. This deal is the starting gun for a Middle East nuclear arms race. Congress must reject it.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Senator Markey on the US-Saudi nuclear deal.

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