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• Michael Fuchs, “America Must Let Go of the Middle East,” Foreign Affairs, August 8, 2026.
• Matthew Kroenig and Henry Sokolski, “The Saudi Nuclear Deal Invites Disaster,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2026.
• Daniel Poneman, “Critics of the U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Have It Exactly Wrong,” New York Times, August 6, 2026.
• “Advancing American Safety, Strength, and Prosperity in Southeast Asia,” U.S. Mission to ASEAN, July 23, 2026.
• Neil Irwin, “Trump may get a big, new tariff authority,” Axios, August 6, 2026.
• “The Navy’s New Battleship Program: Costs and Implications for the Shipbuilding Industrial Base, Congressional Budget Office”, August 5, 2026.
• Philip E. Auerswald, “The Irrelevance of the Middle East”, The American Interest, May 2007
• Justin Logan, “Why the Middle East Still Doesn’t Matter”, Politico Magazine, October 9, 2014.
• “The U.S.-Saudi Agreement for Civil Nuclear Cooperation: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions”, Arms Control Association, August 7, 2026.
• Christopher Preble and Alessandro Perri, “Assumption Testing: The Iran War Is a Case of Alliance Entanglement”, Stimson Center, August 3, 2026.
• Christopher Preble and Lucas Ruiz, “In a Nuclear World, Arms Control Is the Only True Deterrent”, Inkstick, August 10. 2026.
• Mark Cancian and Chris Park, Six Reasons Why the US is Low on Munitions, CSIS, July 31, 2026.
• CSIS Missile Defense Project
• Alexandra Sharp, The Middle East Tries Its Hand at a NATO-Style Pact, Foreign Policy, August 7, 2026.
• Daniel C. Kurtzer and Aaron David Miller, Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Deal is Diplomatic Malpractice, Foreign Policy, July 27, 2026.
• Eric S. Edelman, With the Saudi Deal, Trump Risks Aiding and Abetting a Nuclear Arms Race, The Dispatch, July 28, 2026.