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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 ...
Following the end of the Franco regime, newly democratic Spain chose to join NATO in 1982. In 1990, the negotiators reached an agreement that a reunified Germany would be in NATO under West Germany's existing membership. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many former Warsaw Pact and post-Soviet states sought to join NATO.
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.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
A post on X claims that Secretary General of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Mark Rutte said he will expel the U.S. from the organization if President-Elect Trump “surrenders ...