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3 France and NATO until the end of the Cold War ... it was ratified at the NATO summit of April 3 and 4, 2009. France, however, did not join the Nuclear Plans Group, ...
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
Map of NATO enlargement (1952–present). The history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) begins in the immediate aftermath of World War II.In 1947, the United Kingdom and France signed the Treaty of Dunkirk and the United States set out the Truman Doctrine, the former to defend against a potential German attack and the latter to counter Soviet expansion.
June 17, 2008 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces France will soon rejoin NATO’s military command, 40 years after it left. April 3-4, 2009 - The 23rd NATO summit also marks NATO’s ...
The US, France, and the UK initially agreed to end its occupation of Germany in May 1952 under the Bonn–Paris conventions on the condition that the new Federal Republic of Germany, commonly called West Germany, would join NATO, because of concerns about allowing a non-aligned West Germany to rearm.
Nato chief Mark Rutte echoes incoming US president Donald Trump's call for members to spend more.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
In June 2018, Qatar expressed a wish to join NATO, [174] who ruled it out, saying that only additional European countries could join according to Article 10 of NATO's founding treaty. [175] Qatar and NATO had earlier signed a joint security agreement, in January 2018.