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Elements of the NATO Response Force were activated for the first time in NATO's history. [90] In March, NATO leaders met at Brussels for an extraordinary summit which also involved Group of Seven and European Union leaders. [91] NATO member states agreed to establish four additional battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. [92]
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]
NATO member states agreed to establish four additional battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, [46] and elements of the NATO Response Force were activated for the first time in NATO's history. [51] As of June 2022, NATO had deployed 40,000 troops along its 2,500-kilometre-long (1,550 mi) Eastern flank to deter Russian aggression.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Pages in category "History of NATO" The following 18 pages are in this category ...
The first bunker "Back Yard" (Site A) was the first NATO site built as a communications center with its 50 teletypes and KW7 encryption system, it managed all data and voice traffic with all bases in Italy and the rest of Europe, as described in the BackYard Major Relay reproduced and clearly visible inside the base, which can now be visited ...
In her suddenly relevant history of NATO’s expansion, “Not One Inch,” she recounts how Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both tried to make a place for Russia in European security ...
NATO Undersea Research Centre was established by SACLANT on 2 May 1959 in La Spezia, Italy, to serve as a clearinghouse for NATO's anti-submarine efforts. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Operation Strikeback was the final deployment for the battleships Iowa and Wisconsin until their re-activation in the 1980s by the Reagan Administration .
NATO membership is not supported by any of the country's political parties, including neither the governing Labour Party nor the opposition Nationalist Party. NATO's secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has stated that the alliance fully respects Malta's position of neutrality, and put no pressure for the country to join the alliance. [275]