A Saudi nuke

NY POST ^ | February 28, 2015 | Post Editorial Board

[lentulusgracchus]

The Saudis are right that the mullahs want the Shrine Cities; but they want to possess them and brag about possessing them, not to reduce them to glowing rubble.

It's America and Tel Aviv that the Iranians want to destroy.

[spetznaz]

Not the French - not by a long shot. When it comes to nuclear weapons the Saudi solution is Pakistan. This stems from the following:

1. Since the early 1970s the Saudis have been funding Pakistan's nuclear program. going back to the days of Zulfikar Bhutto (the father of Benazir Bhutto).

2. The Saudis have been very clear that should the situation in the middle east deteriorate (read: the Persians get nuclear weapons capability), they will very quickly have their own nuclear option.

3. The Saudis own Chinese-made DF-3 (CSS-2) ballistic missiles since the 1980s, which are part of their strategic missile force. There is evidence that they may have upgraded to the DF-21 recently. They have several missile complexes, and these particular missiles are nuclear capable.

I would personally put Saudi Arabia as a high-probability nuclear power. It can become a nuclear power faster than Iran can as it would only need to plug and play what it got from Pakistan into its missiles.