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10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Seymour Hersh.md

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   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Hersh conducted extensive research for *The Samson Option*, interviewing many senior American officials, most of whom spoke for the first time about their knowledge of Israel's nuclear arsenal."
+born: 1937-04-08
+location: "Chicago, Illinois, USA"
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 [[Seymour Hersh]] is an [[United States|American]] investigative journalist and author. His book, *The [[Samson Option]]: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*, published in 1991, details how [[Israel]] secretly became a nuclear power and how this secret was largely ignored or sanctioned by top U.S. officials since the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] years.[^1][^2]