On September 2, the Wall Street Journal published new details of the United States-Saudi Arabia nuclear deal currently under review by the U.S. Congress. Saudi Arabia claims it wants a nuclear program only for energy security, but skeptics say it could be converted into a weapons program. The new details corroborate these fears.

• Saudi Arabia could enrich uranium almost to 20 percent on Saudi soil.
• Once a nation has the infrastructure for this, further refinement to weapons-grade 90 percent enrichment is comparatively easy.
• The agreement exempts Saudi Arabia from International Atomic Energy Agency snap inspections of supposedly non-nuclear sites. Such inspections were implemented for nuclear threshold states like Iran.

Does Saudi Arabia want a bomb? Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader, told Fox News in 2023 that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, “we have to get one.”

• Whether Iran can recover its enriched uranium from sites bombed by the U.S. is still unknown, but experts estimate the material could produce about 10 nuclear warheads. This possibility, combined with Iran’s bombing of Saudi Arabia this spring, are probably fueling a Saudi rush to at least have the capacity to build a bomb.

Will Saudi Arabia get a bomb? Matthew 24:21-22 prophesy a global cataclysm impacting humanity so severely that if God didn’t intervene, “not a soul would be saved alive” (verse 22, Moffatt translation). This remained physically impossible until humanity invented weapons of mass destruction. This is talking about nuclear war.

The Bible is silent on whether Saudi Arabia will obtain nuclear weapons. But Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes in his free booklet Nuclear Armageddon Is ‘At the Door’ that even smaller nations pursuing nuclear programs are contributing to this prophecy.