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  Golda Meir would have used the nukes if she had to.
  Her real goal was to get the US to notice her posturing so Israel could get resupplied.
  We only got to this point because Kissinger told Meir not to make a preemptive strike despite intelligence being high that an attack was coming.
context: I think that the suspected Israeli nuclear arsenal would become the confirmed Israeli nuclear arsenal >
  
  Look into the Samson Option. Retired Israeli brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov referred to this operation as the Israeli Samson Option. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab forces were overwhelming Israeli forces and Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered 13 atomic bombs be readied for use by missiles and aircraft.