United States President Donald Trump is currently in nuclear negotiations with Iran, and there are concerns his approach could help Iran gain a bomb. And as of Sunday, Trump may be helping another Middle Eastern country attain a nuclear bomb.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the U.S. is restarting negotiations to build a domestic Saudi nuclear program. Speaking to journalists in Riyadh, Wright said the Trump administration plans to help Saudi Arabia develop a “commercial nuclear power industry.” He said to expect “meaningful developments” this year.

Nuclear talks with Saudi Arabia began under President Joe Biden in 2023. The U.S. would help construct a nuclear program in exchange for Saudi normalization with Israel. The program was supposed to be for energy purposes only, but talks stalled because of concerns the Saudis wanted to weaponize the program and create their own nuclear weapon. The U.S. wanted safeguards against weaponization, but the Saudis refused. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman considered getting Chinese nuclear help when the U.S. balked.

President Trump is restarting talks quickly after taking office, suggesting he does not have the same concerns.

Wright was asked if the current level of talks include Saudi recognition of Israel. He responded that “relationships are always package deals” and that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia could cooperate in various areas.

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff said the president “wants the Abraham Peace Accords to be augmented, and we’re in the process of doing that. We think we’re going to be announcing several new countries who are joining.” Saudi Arabia could be one of these countries.

Why Saudi Arabia

President Trump has a close relationship with the Saudis. His first international trip during his first term was to Saudi Arabia—and it is scheduled to be his first international trip in this current term next month. Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner have major business dealings in Saudi Arabia. It was through Saudi cooperation that the president brokered the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in 2020. Trump also used Riyadh as the location of his inaugural “peace summit” between the U.S. and Russia on ending the war in Ukraine.

Crown Prince Mohammed is evidently somebody President Trump trusts. The announcement suggests Trump may even trust him enough to help him gain nuclear weapons.

Saudi Arabia wants nuclear weapons for one reason: Iran. The last negotiations took place at the same time Iran was making unopposed headway in its nuclear program.

“The world cannot see another Hiroshima,” Crown Prince Mohammed told Fox News in 2023. “If the world sees 100,000 people dead, that means you are in a war with the rest of the world. So it’s a useless effort to reach a nuclear weapon because you cannot use it. If you use it, you got to have a big fight with the rest of the world.” When asked what would happen if Iran gained a nuclear weapon, he responded: “If they get one, we have to get one—for security reasons, for balancing power in the Middle East. But we don’t want to see that.”

Saudi Arabia has little nuclear infrastructure. Even with American investment, analysts dispute how likely it would be for the Saudis to physically acquire a nuclear weapon. But there are still concerns it could try. This would definitely spook Iran. Even if Iran wasn’t planning on building a nuclear bomb right away, it would have to acquire nuclear weapons to stay on par with Saudi Arabia. Israel already has nuclear weapons, and it currently sees Saudi Arabia as an unofficial partner. But the prospect of another powerful Islamic country on Israel’s doorstep gaining nuclear weapons cannot be comforting.

A Saudi rush to the bomb could trigger a nuclear arms race in the world’s most volatile region.

A Soon-to-Be Nuclear Middle East?

Iran and Saudi Arabia are not the only countries to watch. France has suggested it could share its nuclear weapons with the rest of Europe. Russia continues to threaten to use its nuclear weapons on Ukraine. South Korea’s president was recently impeached for preparing to provoke an attack from nuclear North Korea in order to consolidate his power. China and America are openly talking about war with each other.

“Those deadly tools are here,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in “Face the Truth About Nuclear War,” “yet mankind is incredibly casual about it! We have been so desensitized to this topic that we fail to comprehend the stakes. In January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists pushed the minute hand of their symbolic Doomsday Clock forward to just 89 seconds to midnight. Signs are everywhere that nuclear proliferation will end in nuclear suicide!”

Bible prophecy says world conditions will get so bad they will lead to “great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved …” The James Moffatt translation renders verse 22 as “not a soul would be saved alive.” This wasn’t possible until the invention of tools like nuclear weapons.

Osama bin Laden and many of the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks in 2001 were from Saudi Arabia. How complicit the Saudi government was in those attacks is a matter of debate. Nobody is suggesting Crown Prince Mohammed is thinking like Osama bin Laden. But for most of the world not to care that the home country of the 9/11 attackers is urgently pushing for nuclear weapons is madness. And it shows just how desensitized the public at large has become to the threat of nuclear war.

“Nations today have the power to deliver nuclear weapons in mere minutes,” Mr. Flurry wrote. “We are heading into the worst crisis the world has ever known. Only people drowning in illusion can fail to see the great dangers. If we make the same mistake Britain and America made in World War ii, our nations will not survive! What a terrifying tragedy if we fail to heed this warning.”

Matthew 24:22 concludes: “but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” These events leading to nuclear war will culminate in Jesus Christ’s return to Earth—a return to stop man from destroying himself. But God is letting events transpire as they are because mankind has rejected His way and refuses to turn to Him in repentance for the real way to peace (Isaiah 59:1-2).

Mr. Flurry concluded that article: “We can heed this warning and avoid the worst suffering in history. Each of us must choose. The consequences of that choice are truly monumental!

“Do you believe God? Do you have the courage to face the truth?”