And if the administration is trying to stand up to say that non proliferation is a problem in the Middle east, shouldn't that be the. Any agreement that we would make on civil nuclear energy with Saudi Arabia or any other country is going to have safeguards in place to ensure that those cannot ever be turned into a weapons program. I mean, that's the gold standard. And obviously we live in a new era. There are competitors that we face. So we'll have to adjust individual deals to that reality. (11:04–11:14)
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Asserts that U.S. civil nuclear agreements include safeguards to prevent weaponization.
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