Publisher Random House says, on the inside folds of the cover, that The Samson Option "reveals many startling events," among them:

Other allegations in The Samson Option include:

Mr. Hersh coined the phrase he used for the title of the book, "The Samson Option."

The book, "The Samson Option," centers on Israel's nuclear weapons program.

The Samson Option.

More recently, elite Israeli combat units have been named "Samson", and the Israeli nuclear program was called the "Samson Option".

The original conception of the Samson Option was only as deterrence.

Some have written about the "Samson Option" as a retaliation strategy.

He writes that "abandonment of proportionality is the essence" of the Samson Option.