Carnegie Corporation Program Officer Pat Nicholas recently talked with Bronson about her new role. Bronson, an expert on Middle East Policy and National Security, was previously the vice president of studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Founded in 1945 by former Manhattan Project physicists after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin is a nontechnical online magazine that covers global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, climate change, emerging technologies, and other challenges. Yet from the perspective of both countries, the status quo is clearly unsustainable.Meet Rachel Bronson, the newly appointed executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Saudi government faces a zealous internal opposition bent on America's and Saudi Arabia's destruction.
Looking forward, Bronson outlines the challenges confronting the relationship. But decisions made for hardheaded Cold War purposes left behind a legacy that today enflames the Middle East. She argues that contrary to popular belief the relationship was never simply about "oil for security." Saudi Arabia's geographic location and religiously motivated foreign policy figured prominently in American efforts to defeat "godless communism." From Africa to Afghanistan, Egypt to Nicaragua, the two worked to beat back Soviet expansion. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries' shared interests sowed the seeds of today's most pressing problem-Islamic radicalism.ĭrawing on a wide range of archival material, declassified documents, and interviews with leading Saudi and American officials, and including many colorful stories of diplomatic adventures and misadventures, Bronson chronicles a history of close, and always controversial, contacts. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship.
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