Cue the standard stream of assertions that safeguards can prevent nuclear power programs from slipping into weapons programs. As I wrote long ago, safeguards should instead be seen as trade permits. They allow nuclear vendors to draw a line. On one side, things that can be sold 
US-Saudi nuclear deal invites proliferation risks … unless safeguards are written inEnrichment is key to any country’s nuclear ambitions. The US-Saudi deal is unclear where matters rest on that issue.theconversation.com