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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]
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many former Warsaw Pact and post-Soviet states sought to join NATO. Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic became NATO members in 1999, amid much debate within NATO itself.
On 8 July 1997, three former communist countries (Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland) were invited to join NATO, which was accepted by all three, with Hungarian acceptance being endorsed in a referendum in which 85.3% of voters supported joining NATO.
Several central and Eastern European countries began marking on Thursday the 20th anniversary of the largest expansion of the NATO military alliance when formerly socialist countries became ...
Both countries are full members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and of the European Union and of NATO. Poland fully supported Finland's application to join NATO, which resulted in membership on 4 April 2023. Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Poland Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine France: 1919-2-24 [183]
U.S. President Joe Biden will host Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk for a meeting in Washington on March 12, the 25th anniversary of Poland’s joining the NATO ...
Another NATO member country is now joining Poland in the pledge to send fighter jets to Ukraine, after months of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushing Western nations to send more backup in the ...
The first NATO allied units arrived in Poland in 2017. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] (Previously, allied units were not stationed on Polish territory, although they did take part in military exercises, such as Anaconda , Dragon or Noble Jump exercises in the mid-2010s; such exercises are still taking place, e.g. Defender Europe in 2020).