An Israeli retired Brigadier General says in 1969 war Israel planned an atomic explosion in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Itzhak Yaakov added:“The goal was to create a new situation on the ground, a situation which would force the great powers to intervene, or a situation which would force the Egyptians to stop and say, ‘Wait a minute, we didn’t prepare for that.’ The objective was to change the picture.”
He called the Israeli project a “doomsday operation,” and said it was aimed at intimidating Egypt as well as Syria, Iraq and Jordan into backing off.
Retired Israeli Brigadier General Itzhak Yaakov detailed the initiative to Israeli nuclear scholar Avner Cohen in interviews back in 1999 and 2000.
Yaakov said he had initiated, drafted and promoted the plan, code-named Shimshon or Samson, and it would have been activated if Tel Aviv feared it was going to lose the war.
It would have been the first nuclear explosion used for military purposes since the 1945 US attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Press TV
