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The Samson Option: Israel, America and the bomb

01 January 1991

The Samson Option: Israel, America and the bomb
libdoc March=1992

Author: Hersh, Seymour M
Publisher: Faber & Faber 1991, pp.356, Notes, Index

Keywords: Israel, US, Nuclear, Security, Vanunu, Military, South
Africa

"Hersh tells for the first time the compelling story of the
Israeli
nuclear weapons programme and its influence on world events. He
recounts Israel's clandestine nuclear mission, from the building
of
the Dimona reactor site in the remote Negev Desert during the
late
1950s, to the establishment by the late 1970s of a sophisticated
underground nuclear production facility that targeted and
threatened
Israel's enemies in the Middle East as well as the Soviet Union
itself...[He shows] why America, from the Kennedy administration
onward, turned a blind eye toward Israel's growing nuclear
capacity
while paying lip service to the goal of nuclear
non-proliferation. We
discover how American private money and French technology helped
make
the Israeli bomb a reality. We take a tour of Israel's
ultra-secret
nuclear facility, and learn the truth about Israel's nuclear
bargain
with South Africa." (Publishers text)