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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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tags:
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- Person
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- CIA
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- Politician
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- Israel
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- Soviet
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- Military
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summary: "Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958."
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born: 1895-06-11
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died: 1975-02-24
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location: "Nizhny Novgorod, Russia"
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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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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 3. |