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Epic card · History
Samson Option, an Epic card
The Samson Option is a deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a "last resort" against any country whose military has invaded and/or destroyed much of Israel.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 860,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Samson Option quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Samson Option card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term was ______ by Seymour Hersh's 1991 book, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.
Answer
popularized. The term was popularized by Seymour Hersh's 1991 book, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. From the Samson Option article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Samson Option. Samson Option 860,000 · George E. Martin 1,200 · Douglas Parish, New Brunswick 690 · George Foster Herben 360 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term was popularized by Seymour Hersh's 1991 book, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.
- Commentators also have employed the term to refer to situations where non-nuclear, non-Israeli actors have threatened conventional weapons retaliation.
- The name is a reference to the biblical Israelite judge Samson, who is said to have pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had captured him.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Samson Option article was read about 860,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Samson Option
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Samson Option (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gustave Doré, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
