Trump strikes landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia despite safety fears

President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House (Picture: Getty Images) The United States and Saudi Arabia have reached a landmark nuclear deal. The US energy department said Wednesday’s agreement ‘lays the legal foundation for a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership that advances several priority economic and strategic objectives, including nuclear non-proliferation’. A civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia has been in the works for years during both President Donald Trump’s first administration and that of former President Joe Biden. No deal has come together before now, however, in part because of warnings from non-proliferation ​groups who say that it could off