Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO's Lauris Norstad...
...this spirit the U.S.'s four-star General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, read an editorial to his staff one day last week from London's Daily Telegraph. It read: "Each European country has more to gain by augmenting America's retaliatory strength than it has to lose by becoming in the event of war a certain target for Russian assault . . . We must do everything necessary...
...will give intermediate-range ballistic missiles and the nuclear warheads for them to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe-currently U.S. General Lauris Norstad. SACEUR can then pass the missiles on to any NATO country that i) wants them, and 2) in his opinion, has strategic need of them. Custody of the warheads will remain in the hands of SACEUR acting solely in his capacity as a U.S. officer. Thus no significant modification of the McMahon Act (which makes it illegal to put U.S. nuclear weapons in the hands of non-U.S. forces, or to share atomic military secrets with...
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...