A prominent US think tank is claiming that in 1967, Israel hastily made plans to set off an atomic bomb if it appeared they would not emerge victorious from the Six Day War. The plan, codenamed "Operation Shimshon (Sampson)," was to detonate a nuclear weapon on top of a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula, and though the operation never got off the ground, the revelation may shed light on the intentional ambiguity that has come to define Israel's nuclear policy for years. The "doomsday operation" was detailed on Monday by the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. According to researchers, it was put in place to intimidate Arab countries like Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Much of the details were revealed in taped interviews with now-deceased brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov with Dr. Avner Cohen, a scholar of Israel's nuclear history and a global fellow at the center. Cohen explained on the Wilson Center website, "To be