SAMSON OPTION Wiki Vidi Documentary

The Samson Option is the name that some military analysts and authors have given to Israel s deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a last resort against a country whose military has destroyed much of Israel. Commentators also have employed the term to refer to situations where nonnuclear, nonIsraeli actors, have threatened conventional weapons retaliation, such as Yasser Arafat and Hezbollah. The name is a reference to the biblical Israelite judge Samson who pushed apart th