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...will continue to guarantee protection to its allies against nuclear attack and will "furnish military and economic assistance when requested and as appropriate" against other kinds of aggression, Nixon said. He added, however, "we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility for its [nonnuclear] defense...
...military intervention, the risk of nuclear war of course can never be totally ruled out. To gain further insight, therefore, the questionnaire posited U.S. military intervention short of nuclear war. Under such circumstances, the picture changes. If West Berlin were threatened by a Communist takeover, 64% would favor nonnuclear U.S. help and only 24% would oppose it. Yet of the 64% backing Berlin, less than half would send NATO troops to the city's defense; the rest would either offer U.S. weapons or simply issue a warning to the aggressor. The prevalent belief is that West Berlin...
...fighting that saw Soviet troops pursuing the Czechoslovaks into West Germany? Similarly, a Soviet move into the so-called gray areas of Yugoslavia or Austria would pose a threat to NATO. A strong conventional force would be able to turn back Soviet intrusions, but a weak NATO nonnuclear army might lead to a precipitous lunge for the atomic trigger that could send thousands of NATO nuclear warheads raining down on Eastern Europe and start World...
Three Senators offered amendments to NPT, and all were defeated. North Carolina's Sam Ervin wanted to make it clear that the U.S. did not have to defend nonnuclear states against aggression, but other Senators in favor of the treaty argued that the U.S. is already in effect so bound by the U.N. Charter. Texas Republican John Tower proposed to spell out the right of the U.S. to supply nuclear weapons to NATO allies; since the weapons would remain in U.S. control, there would be no violation...
...discuss in each of the capitals he visits-London, Bonn, Rome, Paris. There are many others: the state of NATO, Soviet adventurism in Eastern Europe, the volatile Middle East, Britain's continued isolation from the Common Market, the proposed treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons that some nonnuclear powers-notably West Germany-have feared might cut them off from peaceful applications of atomic technology. Also, Nixon wants to sound out the Atlantic allies carefully before broaching a summit conference to the Russians; by contrast, Lyndon Johnson dealt directly with Moscow and kept the Europeans posted only after...