The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy is a 1991 book by Seymour Hersh. It details the history of Israel's nuclear weapons program and its effects on Israel-American relations. The "Samson Option" of the book's title refers to the nuclear strategy whereby Israel would launch a massive nuclear retaliatory strike if the state itself was being overrun, just as the Biblical figure Samson is said to have pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who
Views of the Biblical World publishers as the head of the editorial board for the book's reprint. Mazar has authored numerous works on Christian-Israel relations and Second Temple archaeology and is a former Chairman of the political action group, the Christian Mid-East Conference. He is the third generation in his family to be involved in this book series: his grandfather Benjamin Mazar was the original Chairman of the Editorial Board of "Views of the Biblical World" in 1959, and his father Ory was the Editorial Manager of the publication. Views of the Biblical World Views of the Biblical World (Library of Congress Catalogue Number 59-7767)