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The scenario for the war was NATO launching a nuclear attack on Polish and Czechoslovak cities in the Vistula river valley area in a first-strike scenario, which would prevent Warsaw Pact commanders from sending reinforcements to East Germany to forestall a possible NATO invasion of that country.
In June 1968 in Reykjavik NATO called the Warsaw Pact for negotiations on the mutual and balance Treaty of Paris reduction of conventional forces in Central Europe between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. [Note 5] Brezhnev gives an agreement in principle on May 14, 1971. France is opposed to this because it does not want block-to-block discussions ...
English: English: Border of NATO and Warsaw Pact in contrast to each other from 1949 (formation of NATO) to 1990 (withdrawal of East Germany). This map is based on File:BlankMap-World-Atlantic-(1949-1990).svg.
Deutsch: Grenzen von NATO und Warschauer Pakt von 1949 (Gründung der NATO) bis 1990 (Ende der DDR mit dem Ausscheiden aus dem Warschauer Pakt). English: Border of NATO and Warsaw Pact in contrast to each other from 1949 (formation of NATO) to 1990 (withdrawal of East Germany)
English: Map of Europe showing NATO (blue) and the Warsaw Pact (red), as well as the size of the military in various member states ca. 1973. Deutsch: Karte von Europa mit NATO (blau) und der Warschauer Pakt (rot), c. 1973
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]
The alliance is directed mainly at Russia, which followed up its victory in World War II by seizing control of Eastern Europe despite its pledges to allow the countries it occupied to exercise ...
Deutsch: Truppenstärke der NATO-Mitgliedsstaaten in Europa und der Staaten des Warschauer Paktes 1959. English: Troop strengths of NATO members in Europe, and of Warsaw Pact members, 1959. Français : Effectifs militaires en Europe durant la guerre froide, 1959.