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West Germany raised the issue too? To head off such a rivalry, General Lauris Norstad, NATO's supreme commander in Europe, has proposed that the alliance should have its own nuclear force...
There are signs that President-elect Kennedy is thinking along Norstad's lines. In a book review written for the Satur day Re-view last September, Kennedy declared, "We must think through afresh the military mission of NATO." In the book before him, British Military Expert B. H. Liddell Hart argued that European nations perhaps should abandon atomic weapons and concentrate on conventional forces, leaving the U.S. the task of deterring Soviet atomic strength. Kennedy was convinced that European nations would likely prefer another solution: "Our partners may wish to create a NATO deterrent, supplementary to our own, under...
This Way Out. As a way out of this maze, NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad last week outlined a proposal he has been urging for over a year: the creation of a nuclear weapons stockpile to be placed under NATO control and left there so long as the alliance endures. Such a step would presumably stave off any German demand for independent nuclear strength, would also quiet the longstanding fear of NATO's European members that in the event of a Soviet attack on Europe the U.S. might hesitate to use its deterrent in the hope of avoiding Russian...
...What Norstad envisions is a pool of U.S.-built nuclear weapons, both land-based and seaborne, which would still be in the custody of U.S. officers (as required by Congress) but which could be fired by NATO's commander subject to the directions of all 15 NATO members rather than the U.S. alone...
Well Back, Please. Inevitably, Norstad's proposal met with less than unanimous welcome. British Socialist John Strachey, onetime Minister of War under Clement Attlee, nervously declared that the West's nuclear strength should be placed "well back," preferably "on the other side of the Atlantic." French spokesmen made it plain that, with or without the Norstad proposal, De Gaulle intends to go on building his own atomic capacity. There were questions, too, about the plan's feasibility. It would require congressional amendment of the McMahon Atomic Energy Act. And no one was quite sure just how, under...