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
Shiloh (biblical figure) Shiloh (biblical figure) Shiloh (; Hebrew: "šīlō" or "šīlōh" ) is a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 49:10 as part of the benediction given by Jacob to his son Judah. Jacob states that "the sceptre will not depart from Judah... until "Shiloh" comes...". The Latin Vulgate translates the word as "he ... that is to be sent", which would be the equivalent of the Hebrew shaluach (, "messenger"), indicating a possible corruption of the text (on either side). The Peshitta has "the one to whom [it] belongs" Similarly, the Septuagint translates the word to "the things stored