# Hersh 1991: The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy

> Seymour M. Hersh, 1991. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The best-known published claim that the flash was an Israeli test.

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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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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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