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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]
At the NATO summit in Bucharest in April 2008, NATO decided it would not yet offer membership to Georgia and Ukraine; nevertheless, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that Georgia and Ukraine would eventually become members. Even though it was a powerful statement, one person cannot guarantee membership, especially before a ...
NATO Partnership for Peace: February 8, 1994 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council: May 29, 1997 [3] Council of Europe: November 9, 1995 Energy Community: February 1, 2011 member [4] Baku Initiative: November 13, 2004 Central European Initiative: May 31, 1996 Commonwealth of Independent States: December 8, 1991 [5]
Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine and says Europe must be responsible for country’s security. ... Home delistings soar 64% to the highest level in nearly a decade as buyers turn down
That means that, if Ukraine became a NATO member, Russia's attacks on the country would would put the entire alliance – most of Europe – at war with Russia, potentially kickstarting a world war.
If Ukraine was a NATO member, on the other hand, the treaty’s collective defense clause, known as Article 5, would require other members to fight on Ukraine’s behalf.
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG, also known as the Ramstein group [1] [2]) is an alliance of 57 countries (all 32 member states of NATO and 25 other countries) and the European Union supporting the defence of Ukraine by sending military equipment in response to the 2022 Russian invasion. [3]
The 32-members of NATO on Wednesday formally declared Ukraine on an “irreversible” path to membership in the Western military alliance, offering a bare but more binding assurance of protection ...