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 Israel's strategy of mass-murdering non-Jews with nuclear weapons if Israel is destroyed named after Samson from the Hebrew Bible, who pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of non-Jew Philistines who had captured him, mutilated him, and gathered to see him further humiliated in chains as retribution for his Jewish mass-murders of non-Jewish people.
Publisher Random House says, on the flaps of the dust jacket, that The Samson Option "reveals many startling events," among them:
How Israel created a false control room at the Dimona nuclear weapons facility to hide from American nuclear inspectors its use in creating nuclear weapons. How Israel threatened to use nuclear weapons on the third day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, blackmailing U.S. President Richard Nixon into airlifting military supplies to Israel. How Israel used a top London newspaper editor to kidnap Mordechai Vanunu (an Israeli whistleblower that revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986). How a Jewish Democratic Party fundraiser, Abraham Feinberg, influenced the American White House while raising money for Israeli nuclear weapons. How American intelligence finally learned the truth about Dimona - an Israeli nuclear weapons facility.
The American Library Association book review lists additional "significant revelations" in the book:
That Israel collaborated with South Africa on a nuclear weapons test over the Indian Ocean in 1979.
