Raymond Fox was an American nuclear physicist who emigrated to [[Israel]] in 1957 from [[California]], where he had access to weapons design information at the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]. His secrets were considered potentially invaluable to the Israelis at [[Dimona]].[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7.