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category: "Political Figure"
tags:
  - Person
  - CIA
  - Politician
  - Israel
  - Soviet
  - Military
summary: "Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958."
born: 1895-06-11
died: 1975-02-24
location: "Nizhny Novgorod, Russia"
---

Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the [[Soviet Union]] from 1955 to 1958. During the [[Suez Crisis]] in 1956, he explicitly warned [[David Ben-Gurion]] that the [[Soviet Union]] was capable of attacking with "remote-controlled vehicles" and threatened to send troops as "volunteers" into the [[Middle East]]. This warning, perceived as a nuclear ultimatum, contributed to [[Britain]] and [[France]]'s decision to cease their military actions and forced [[Israel]] to agree to a cease-fire.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 3.