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NATO Escalation Policy and NATO Nuclear capabilities

NATO, is an alliance of nations that via three permanent members (USA, UK, and France) is a nuclear alliance. This alliance was formed in order to provide a blanket of security for Western European nations, Canada, and the United States against the Soviet Union. ^[1] NATO members get the safety of Nuclear weapons being shared to its members from one of the 3 permanent members. However, the U.S. was the primary defender of the other countries upon NATO’s formation^[1] , due to its vast nuclear arsenal that it lays at the disposal for the organization.

^ ^a ^b Cimbala, Stephen (1989). NATO Strategies and Nuclear Weapons. New York: St.Martin's Press. p. 1.

[:0-1] Cimbala, Stephen (1989). NATO Strategies and Nuclear Weapons. New York: St.Martin's Press. p. 1.

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