Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Airman Norstad makes nothing of either time or space in the pursuit of NATO business. "There is a sort of Roman aspect about Norstad," says André de Staercke, permanent Belgian representative on the NATO Council. "There are no borders for this man. Any morning he is apt to say: 'We will be in Ankara at 8 o'clock tonight.' " Often such flying trips serve primarily as valuable propaganda for NATO; sometimes they herald a new departure in the defense of Europe. A few months ago in Italy Norstad moved an audience to tears by declaring: "There...
Shield & Sword. Last spring, in the wake of Britain's decision to cut its armed forces in half by 1962, the Atlantic Council gave Norstad a formidable task: to prepare an estimate of NATO's force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises...
Schemes & Dreams. Norstad's report, which went to all NATO members more than two months ago, is the basis of U.S. military proposals for next week's summit conference. With the Sputnik, the establishment of IRBM bases in Europe has taken on an added significance for the U.S., as a necessary counter to the Soviet missile threat to Turkey, Europe and Britain, to say nothing of its ICBM threat to North America. Though final arrangements will be left for later negotiation (since the U.S. does not yet have an operational IRBM), the U.S. will offer missiles...
Though it will be the most dramatic issue discussed at the summit conference, the proposal to establish NATO missile bases represents a relatively simple form of interdependence. Far more complicated are some of the other suggestions now being mulled over in the chancelleries of the NATO nations...
...will offer (subject to congressional approval) to relax the restrictions of the MacMahon Act in order to share with its NATO partners U.S. know-how in the military uses of atomic energy. It will also propose increased cooperation in scientific education, training and research, with particular emphasis on joint effort in weapons development and manufacture. Likely specific proposals: establishment of a NATO fund for educating budding scientists, establishment of a NATO missiles training and research center, an all-NATO program for exchange of weapons blueprints and designs...