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Cold War

The Bandung Conference was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, held in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955. Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser attended this conference and received a promise from Chou En-lai, the Chinese premier, for as many arms as Egypt could afford. This marked a significant step in Nasser's efforts to secure military aid from the Communist world.1

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  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. ↩︎