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🗓️ 23 August 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
0:08.0 | Here's John Batchelor. |
0:10.0 | I welcome the executive director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, |
0:15.0 | Henry Sikolsky, writing recently a national interest. |
0:19.0 | Donald Trump has had a nuclear precedent. Now he must enforce it. |
0:23.4 | Henry, a very good evening to the B2 raid over Iran, leaving question marks everywhere. |
0:30.6 | And one of them is, what is the U.S. policy about enriching uranium? There are a number of states who have nuclear reactors who do not |
0:42.2 | have the bomb, and there are those who have reactors and have the bombs, such as North Korea. |
0:48.0 | However, you have taught me for some time now that if you have a reactor, you can have a bomb. So, does the U.S. now |
0:56.4 | restate its policy about when the B-2s appear and when they do not? Good evening to you. |
1:03.4 | Good evening. It's great being on your show again. Thank you. We are backing into having a policy, I think. |
1:13.6 | I'm not sure. |
1:15.5 | For sure, we don't want the Iranians to be able to make plutonium. |
1:21.3 | That's the reason we bombed a heavy water facility that supports a heavy water reactor. |
1:31.7 | We don't want them to use or make enriched uranium or make a bomb. And so we bombed those facilities. However, one of the big immediate questions |
1:38.7 | is a policy statement that was made by the Secretary of Energy in April of this year that we're going to strike a deal with Saudi Arabia to help them produce nuclear power, and we're going to help them enrich uranium. |
1:55.8 | Now, maybe people have forgotten that, and maybe it will stay forgotten, but the Saudis are still seeking |
2:04.2 | nuclear cooperation with the United States and threatening, of course, as they always do, |
2:10.4 | to go elsewhere if we don't give them the goods. |
2:14.9 | So that's an immediate question. |
2:16.9 | And then, you know, there are neighbors of |
2:23.0 | Saudi Arabia and Iran, including Turkey, at a minimum, and Egypt, that have had weapons aspirations |
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