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Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
English: Borders of NATO (in blue) and CSTO (in red) as of December 2024. This map is based on File:BlankMap-World-Atlantic.svg This map is based on File:BlankMap-World-Atlantic.svg Date
During the Cold War, NATO used radar facilities in Malta, which, like other non-NATO member European states, has generally cooperative relations with the organization. [270] When the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949, the Mediterranean island of Malta was a dependent territory of the United Kingdom, one of the treaty's original signatories.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
7 March 2024: Source: Own work based on: Blank map of Europe (with disputed regions).svg by maix and Alphathon: Author: Patrickneil and Spesh531: Other versions: NATO expansion.png, History of NATO enlargement animation.gif: SVG development
Finland officially joined NATO on Tuesday, in a nightmare scenario for Russia, which views the military alliance as a threat. Map shows how Russia's border with NATO more than doubles with Finland ...
Map of the countries included in a minimum definition of Northwestern Europe. Northwestern Europe, or Northwest Europe, is a loosely defined subregion of Europe, overlapping Northern and Western Europe. The term is used in geographic, [1] history, [2] and military contexts. [3]
– What is Nato’s purpose? Under Article 5 of the founding North Atlantic Treaty – signed in April 1949 – an attack on one member state is treated as an attack on all and requires other ...