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
Salah (biblical figure) Salah (biblical figure) Salah (שלח, "Shelach", "Šelḥ" ) is an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in . He is thus one of the table's “seventy names.” He is called Shelah in and Sala () in the Septuagint and . In the ancestral line from Noah to Abraham, he is the son of Arpachshad (in the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch) or Cainan (in the Septuagint ) and the father of ‘Eber. The name "‘Eber" for his son is the original eponym of the Hebrew people, from the root "‘abar" (עבר, ), “to cross over.” The