NATO and Nuclear Policy
Abstract
It is obvious that the Western Europe of the mid-1960's-rich and innovative, full of self-confidence and elan--is, in these vital respects, utterly different from the Western Europe of 1949 when NATO was founded. The Europe of 15 years ago was still suffering from many wounds inflicted during the war; it was impoverished, disillusioned, played out; it lacked nerve. What is not so obvious, especially to many people on this side of the Atlantic, is that the extraordinary change that has occurred in the state of Europe calls for a radical transformation of the NATO alliance, if indeed the alliance will continue for long to serve sufficiently common purposes. At the present time, to be sure, the military recovery of Western Europe is lagging far behind its recovered and growing vitality in non-military activities, and its security still seems to depend heavily on the military power of the United States. However, there have been appreciable changes, in recent years, in European conceptions of the European security problem and in the realities of which these conceptions take account.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- ADB241241
Entities
People
- Klaus Knorr
Organizations
- Center for Strategic and International Studies