Samson Option: Why Israel’s Nuclear ‘Last-Resort’ Doctrine is Back in Focus Amid US-Israel War on Iran?

As the Iran war widens, Hezbollah and Iraqi Shias join the war, and Israel comes under incessant Iranian missile attacks, a little-known and rarely discussed Israeli security doctrine is under renewed scrutiny. Known as the Samson Option, it refers to Israel’s undeclared but widely-assumed apocalyptic, nuclear last-resort policy. While the doctrine emerged during the Cold […] The post Samson Option: Why Israel’s Nuclear ‘Last-Resort’ Doctrine is Back in Focus Amid US-Israel War on Iran? appeared first on EURASIAN TIMES.