It’s called The Samson Option. Seymour Hersh wrote a book about it so many years ago that no one today seems to remember it. Except for those who might invoke it.
It’s called The Samson Option. Seymour Hersh wrote a book about it so many years ago that no one today seems to remember it. Except for those who might invoke it.
That's a truly terrifying scenario though. And since there doesn't seem to be any modern rhetoric suggesting that Israel has changed that protocol (or refuted its existence) do you think this is a motivating reason why these various groups and nations haven't done more than Sabre rattle and stockpile? If Isael's nuclear arsenal IS in fact, the key deterring factor against a fullscale war, I suppose the last question is: what would the red line be? How FAR could Israel go before the Axis sees the threat to them as existential enough to risk nuclear retaliation?
It’s called The Samson Option. Seymour Hersh wrote a book about it so many years ago that no one today seems to remember it. Except for those who might invoke it.
That's a truly terrifying scenario though. And since there doesn't seem to be any modern rhetoric suggesting that Israel has changed that protocol (or refuted its existence) do you think this is a motivating reason why these various groups and nations haven't done more than Sabre rattle and stockpile? If Isael's nuclear arsenal IS in fact, the key deterring factor against a fullscale war, I suppose the last question is: what would the red line be? How FAR could Israel go before the Axis sees the threat to them as existential enough to risk nuclear retaliation?
Dancing on a razor's edge, to be sure.