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39. A past President stated this. Also, read Hersh's, The Samson Option

Wiki:

The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy is a 1991 book by Seymour Hersh. It details the history of Israel's nuclear weapons program and its effects on Israel-American relations. The "Samson Option" of the book's title refers to the nuclear strategy whereby Israel would launch a massive nuclear retaliatory strike if the state itself was being overrun, just as the Biblical figure Samson 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 gathered to see him humiliated.

According to The New York Times, Hersh relied on Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli government employee who says he worked for Israeli intelligence, for much of his information on the state of the Israeli nuclear program. However, Hersh confirmed all of this information with at least one other source.[1]

President Nixon and Henry Kissinger both stated that Israel used its nuclear weapons to blackmailed the US, as actually occurred during the '73 War when the overrun scenario referenced above was a possibility, forcing the US to supply weapons to Israel in its war with Egypt and Syria. See, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/world/middleeast/29nixon.html?_r=0

Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal Vexed Nixon

By DAVID STOUT
Published: November 29, 2007

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — In July 1969, as the world was spellbound by the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, President Richard M. Nixon and his close advisers were quietly fretting about a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Their main worry was not a potential enemy of the United States, but one of America’s closest friends.

Tensions over Israel’s nuclear weapons cast a shadow over talks between Richard M. Nixon and Golda Meir in 1969.
Related
Mandatory Review Documents (nixon.archives.gov)
Memo From Kissinger to Nixon on the Israeli Nuclear Program (July 19, 1969)

“The Israelis, who are one of the few peoples whose survival is genuinely threatened, are probably more likely than almost any other country to actually use their nuclear weapons,” Henry A. Kissinger, the national security adviser, warned Mr. Nixon in a memorandum dated July 19, 1969 — part of a newly released trove of documents.

Israel’s nuclear arms program, which Israel has never officially conceded exists, was believed to have begun at least several years before, but it was causing special problems for the young Nixon administration.