Story here. The king seems to think Jordan having its own “peaceful nuclear program” is a perfectly reasonable idea. Is it?
Why wouldn’t it be? He says he wants all such programs under international monitors.
Is Jordan a signatory to the NPT? Then they have the right to work on and get help with a peaceful nuclear program for power.
Besides, it’s Jordan we’re talking about here.
Dear Abdullah:
INCOMING!
Love,
Israel.
Why do they need nuclear power? They’ve got plenty of sunlight and plenty of desert in which to put solar farms.
Are you kidding? Jordan is the closest thing we have to a friend in the Arab world. Abdullah is a smart guy - he is, after all, his father’s son - and we don’t have anything to worry about from his direction. As the article said, this is about Iran, not us.
OTOH, Jordan is (1) the closest thing the Arab world has to a parliamentary democracy and (2) the only country outside the OTs with a significant population of Palestinian voters. 
Yeah. Don’t think that doesn’t keep us up at nights.
But we’re not warming up the F-15 engines just yet.
I think that Abdullah is USA educated
- and the ruling Hashemites don’t much like the Palestinians
- that is why they don’t want the West Bank back (they lost it in 1967)
My guess is that this is a ploy
- probably a setup so everyone can say ‘Yes, sure, do you want one from the USA, Russia or Japan’
Solar power is less practical than nuclear. Nukes are more reliable and produce more energy, among other things.
Sure. The genie is out of the bottle, and ain’t going back in. Barring some technological breakthrough impossible to predict, nuclear power is the future anyway.
Well I am hoping that the Nuclear Fusion project in France (which people are chipping in for) works out.
I also reckon that Tidal is a good way of using existing technology.
It is, but to get the energy anywhere but the relatively small regions where tidal power is powerful enough to justify building generators needs superconducting transmission cables, which I personally think can be far more important that any single energy source - they represent the ability to distribute the energy anywhere with virtually no loss.
i’m with quartz, go solar, or wind, or both.
do remember the queen is palestinian.
You’d think that after appearing on a* Star Trek * show he’d be pusing for Jordan to have warp techology.
Are you sure about that, a heck of a lot of the earth has strong tides, I would envisage converting most of the electrical energy into hydrogen, and/or hydrocarbons and using conventional methods of transportation.
It need not be particularly efficient.
And then Bush’d tell Congress we needed to invade because Jordan was attempting to buy dilithium crystals from Nigeria.
I blame Romulan subversion for this, personally.
If you believe nukes are a deterrent, hen we should have all the nukes missles put in a huge pile. Then allow every country in the world could pick out a couple. Since nuke war would be threatened ,all countries would stop warring.Mutually assured destruction would come back with a surge. Peace would reign.
Didn’t we used to say virtually the same thing about Saddam 20 years ago?
Please note, I’m not advocating that Iraq had WMDs or nukes. Just pointing out how relatively quickly relations between countries can go sour.