Israeli Nukes and Seymour Hersh

The government of Israel is keen to pretend that it does not have nukes and refuses to take a public position either way. The evidence that they got them with American connivance is overwhelming but the truth has never been an issue that concerned them unless it was convenient. Seymour Hersh is a well known investigative journalist and a Jew who wrote Samson Option - Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy.

The Amazon review tells us that:-

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Ever since the early 1950s, Israel has had one military eye firmly fixed on atomic weapons as a means of salvation, using them primarily as a military threat for both offensive and defensive purposes. Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize winner, expounds on the steady but quiet growth of an Israeli nuclear industry that proved so successful that Israel was able to coerce several U.S. administrations into doing its bidding. He also explores in depth Israeli access to U.S. intelligence satellite technologies that resulted from inattention by Washington leaders as well as from the four years of insider spying by Jonathan Jay Pollard. He reveals that the Soviet Union has been targeted by Israeli nuclear warheads since the mid-1980s. Unlike several other recent expos es of Israeli intelligence apparatus (Ian Black and Benny Morris's Israel's Secret Wars , LJ 8/91, and Andrew and Leslie Cockburn's Dangerous Liaison , LJ 6/15/91), Hersh follows the threads of a specific intelligence focus while highlighting U.S. policies that ultimately ignore the very real presence of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. This incredibly well-written book should be in every collection.
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Seymour Hersh
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His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. His 2004 reports on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison gained much attention.
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The Wiki is keen to tell us My Lai and Abu Ghraib but buries mention of his book on Israel's nukes in the detail. See Samson Option - Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy.