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

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