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Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957. 1914-08-19 1993-02-10 Luisant, Eure-et-Loir, France

Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957. His government replaced Guy Mollet's, and it was during his administration that the formal authorization for the Dimona reactor was signed by Christian Pineau, then Foreign Minister, just as the government was being voted out of office.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. ↩︎