As Saudis Go Nuclear, U.S. Seeks an Edge Over Great-Power Rivals - Bloomberg

As Saudis Go Nuclear, U.S. Seeks an Edge Over Great-Power Rivals - Bloomberg: At a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna last September, word spread that Saudi Arabia had identified a handful of countries that could build two nuclear reactors in the kingdom. The U.S. wasn’t among them -- until Energy Secretary Rick Perry buttonholed the Saudi delegates and told them America wanted in.