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Samson Options

Samson Options is the plural of Samson Option.

Meaning of Samson Option

Proper noun

the Samson Option (usually uncountable, plural Samson Options)

  1. (usually) A last-resort strategy employed by the State of Israel involving massive nuclear retaliation within and outside of the State of Israel.
    • The Samson Option states that Moshe Dayan gave the go-ahead for starting weapon production in early 1968, putting the plutonium separation plant into full operation.2009 June 7, Filipe, CNN, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023
  2. (broadly, figuratively, usually) Any massively destructive strategy used as a last resort, especially one that is also self-destructive.
    • Whatever the eventual shape of the new world order, it should leave no room for "Samson options."1992, Paul C. Warnke, “Reviews: Nuclear Israel”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 48, number 2, page 42

Proper noun capitalized: Samson options

Samson options

  1. (plural) plural of Samson option

Questions about Samson Options

What is Samson Options the plural of?
Samson Options is the plural of Samson Option.
What part of speech is Samson Options?
Samson Options is a proper noun.

Words near Samson Options in the dictionary

  1. Samson
  2. samson fish
  3. Samson fox
  4. Samson foxes
  5. Samson Option
  6. Samson Options
  7. Samson post
  8. Samson posts
  9. samsonfish
  10. Samsonian
  11. Samsonic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Samson Options (page history and authors); Samson options (page history and authors); Samson Option (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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