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
Damaris (biblical figure) open spaces in the Pagkrati neighborhood. The etymology of the name is uncertain. Proposals include derivation from "damar" δάμαρ "wife, spouse", a contraction of the classical Greek name "Damarete" Δαμαρέτη (attested as the name of a daughter of Theron of Acragas and wife of Gelo), or derivation from "damalis" δάμαλις "heifer"; Coptic derivation has also been considered. Damaris (biblical figure) Damaris () is the name of a woman mentioned in a single verse in Acts of the Apostles () as one of those present when Paul of Tarsus preached in Athens in front of the Athenian Areopagus in c. AD