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
Abishai (biblical figure) of the Semitic chief who offers gifts to the lord of Beni-Hassan in an inscription at that site in Middle Egypt. Abishai (biblical figure) Abishai was the eldest son of Zeruiah, sister of the biblical King David. The meaning of his name is "Father of a gift." He was the brother of Joab and Asahel, and a military leader under David. Abishai was the only one who accompanied David when he went to the camp of Saul and took the spear and water bottle from Saul as he slept. He had the command of one of the three divisions of