Small problem: Saudi Arabia has announced that it wants to go nuclear. That’s not the problem, because international law says every country has the right to nuclear power stations and all the supporting technology.

The Saudis have also said that they want to do their own uranium enrichment, and that is the problem. Or at least causes one, because the question becomes, “Should we be polite about this or call it what it is?” Sure, they have sovereign rights to do as they wish, but we should point out the truth: a country only does this if they want to go nuclear in the other sense — making nuclear bombs.