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William E. Colby served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 1976. He shared the assumption that Israel had a few nuclear weapons and that if there was a collapse during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, there was a possibility that Israel would use them. Colby believed that nuclear weapons would be used "only in an extreme situation."¹

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1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 17. ↩︎