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Samson Option

The English word “Samson Option” has 2 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. A last-resort strategy employed by the State of Israel involving massive nuclear retaliation within and outside of the State of Israel.
  2. Any massively destructive strategy used as a last resort, especially one that is also self-destructive.

Etymology

In reference to Samson in the Bible, who destroyed the Philistine temple in which he was captured in a suicide attack.

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