Massive retaliation is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy that commits a state to retaliate to an attack in much greater force, especially with the use of nuclear weapons.
US President Eisenhower (left) meeting with Secretary of State Dulles at the White House in 1956
US President Kennedy (left) and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1962
US and Soviet tanks face off in Berlin in 1961
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
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