Nuclear Latnecy Technological Sovereignty and Strategic Deterrence in the Arab Middle East Nuclear latency in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is not a step on the path towards nuclearization but a mid- to long-term equilibrium state. It argues that both Egypt and Saudi Arabia have framed their own deliberate latency postures, which is the simultaneity of technological sovereignty and deterrent value, while not crossing the line of becoming nuclear powers, using the c