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 |  موضوع: NATO issue الإثنين يونيو 24, 2013 7:38 pm | |
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 to provide its member states with an umbrella of collective security. NATO’s objectives are based on the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949, which requires each member state to share the risk and responsibility of upholding international peace and security in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter of 1945. Today, NATO is comprised of 26 member states from Europe and North Amrica. Nuclear weapons have formed part of NATO’s collective defense policy since its inception in the late 1940s. According to its  defense doctrine of November 1949, NATO defense plans call for insuring “the ability to carry out strategic bombing including the prompt delivery of the atomic bomb. This is primarily a US responsibility assisted as practicable by other nations.” NATO’s nuclear policy is based on the concept of nuclear sharing, which involves basing nuclear weapons on the territories of non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS). Only three of the five nuclear-weapon states (NWS) as recognized by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are NATO members. However, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey all host nuclear weapons on their territory. These countries all belong to NATO and, according to the NPT, are all NNWS. In 1954, NATO first deployed US nuclear weapons in Great Britain. In March 1957, NATO Supreme Commander General Norstadt confirmed the presence of US nuclear weapons in Germany. Nuclear sharing meant that the United States provided nuclear weapons and delivery aircrafts for deployment on the territories of its European NATO allies. While the weapons remained under US control at all times during peace time, the US President would authorize their use in case of war and hand them over for use by the host country’s military. In 1962, Foreign and Defense Ministers at the Spring Ministerial Session welcomed US confirmation that it would continue to provide nuclear weapons to its European allies. Nuclear sharing reached its peak in the early 1970s when NATO had 7,300 US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe. | |
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