Martin van Creveld
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Martin Levi van Creveld is an Israeli military historian and theorist.
Van Creveld at the House of Commons, London (26 February 2008)
Samson Option
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The Samson Option is a deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against any country whose military has invaded and/or destroyed much of Israel. The term was p
Martin van Creveld
…in Elsevier, a Dutch weekly, on Israel and the dangers it faces from Iran, the Palestinians and world opinion van Creveld stated, referring to the Samson Option: We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals…
According to the biblical narrative, Samson died when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, and "bowed himself with all his might" (Judges 16:30, KJV).
Nuclear reactor in dimona
BLW Samson slaying a Philistine