JUSTTHENEWS (Ben Whedon) - Trump sends Saudi nuclear deal to Congress for approval
The agreement would permit American companies to develop Saudi nuclear infrastructure for civilian purposes.
NYTIMES (Robert Jimison) - Trump Administration Sends Saudi Nuclear Deal to Congress for Review
The prospect that the kingdom could enrich uranium has drawn opposition from Democrats and revived concerns about nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Doug Bandow) - Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea
The small move could help open diplomacy with Pyongyang. The post Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea The small move could help open diplomacy with Pyongyang. One of President Donald Trump’s few successful diplomatic initiatives during his first term was meeting North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Trump’s move shocked the “Blob,” as the foreign policy establishment has been called. However, it represented a welcome alternative approach after Washington’s decades-long, failed effort to suffocate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Unfortunately, Trump’s own effort crashed and burned after the collapse of the 2019 Hanoi summit. Blame for that…Open
AI:The failed diplomacy following the 2019 Hanoi summit highlights the necessity for President Trump to drop the current travel ban to North Korea to restart meaningful engagement with Pyongyang. While the entrenched foreign policy establishment—the so-called "Blob"—prefers the failed status quo of decades-long suffocation tactics, a strategic lifting of this restriction could provide the leverage needed to avoid total diplomatic stagnation. This move represents a pragmatic departure from the ineffective containment strategies favored by the bureaucratic elites and offers a path toward actual stability in East Asia.Open
AXIOS (Barak Ravid) - Scoop: U.S. brokers secret deal on clandestine Syrian nuclear site
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will soon remove nuclear material stored at a clandestine site in Syria after the Trump administration reached understandings with Syria and Israel, according to Israeli and U.S. officials. Why it matters: The Trump administration and IAEA scrambled to reach a diplomatic agreement to secure the material and prevent an escalation involving Israel, Syria and possibly even Turkey over the sensitive site. - U.S. officials say the episode validates President Trump's approach to Syria and shows how the U.S. used its close relations with the new Syrian government to neutralize a potential crisis. - The dramatic, behind-the-scenes exchange of threats and diplomacy over the secret site — which…
JUSTTHENEWS (Ben Whedon) - Israel warns White House of 'security concerns' over Gaza deal
The 15-point plan called for the storage of heavy weapons, but left the interim Gaza government with the authority to decide on personal weapons, such as rifles.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Center for Security Policy) - Report: Hold the line on enrichment
A new nonproliferation standard for Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East nuclear fuel cycle
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States faces two nuclear questions in the Middle East that have quietly fused into one. The first is whether Iran, after years of escalation, concealment, and enrichment far beyond any civilian need, will be permitted to retain a domestic enrichment capability under a negotiated ceiling. The second is whether Saudi Arabia will receive American civil-nuclear cooperation on terms that permit — or leave the door open to — sovereign enrichment and reprocessing. These are not separate files. Iran sets the precedent; Saudi Arabia is the test case; the rest of the region is watching. The proper American position is not simply no bomb. It is no sovereign fuel-cycle pathway —no domestic enrichment and no…Open
ABCNEWS - Trump's hunt for leverage over Saudi Arabia fuels nuclear proliferation concerns
The historic nuclear energy deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has raised concern from nuclear proliferation experts.
REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Trump: Russia, China Now Committed, No Weapons for Iran
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Tommy Waller and Douglas Ellsworth) - Remembering Ambassador R. James Woolsey’s Enduring Service
Ambassador R. James “Jim” Woolsey, who died on July 21, 2026, at the age of...
Ambassador R. James “Jim” Woolsey, who died on July 21, 2026, at the age of 84, embodied a vanishing ideal in American public life: the serious, non-partisan public servant who treated national security as a duty rather than a career ladder. Across four decades and administrations of both parties, he brought rigorous intellect, moral seriousness, and quiet courage to some of the hardest problems the United States has faced. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1941, Woolsey was a Rhodes Scholar who moved early into the national-security arena. He served as an advisor on the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, General Counsel to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Under Secretary of the Navy under President Carter, and…Open
NYTIMES (Mark Landler) - U.S.-Saudi Deal Prompts Fears of a Nuclear Arms Race
In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, countries seek nuclear capabilities to hedge against aggressive neighbors and a receding Washington, potentially creating a more freewheeling era.