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The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy
Seymour M. Hersh, 1991. Random House, New York.
A history of Israel's nuclear programme from interviews with former officials, who told Hersh the 1979 flash was an Israeli test of a low-yield nuclear artillery shell, one of three.
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The best-known published claim that the flash was an Israeli test.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Hersh, S. M. (1991). The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, New York. https://archive.org/details/Sampson_Option
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Hersh, Seymour M.. “The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.” Random House, New York (1991).