JFK Was Threatened With Suitcase Nuke In DC

Seymour Hersh wrote Israel’s desire to create a nuclear weapon in the early 1960s in order to have a safe option for defending Israel’s right to exist. This Sampson option was said to give President John Kennedy headaches.

But Kennedy‘s nightmares were reserved for a much more threatening nuclear option to be used in Washington DC inside a suitcase; the Samsonite option.
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