North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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1. Story
2. The alliance created by the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve states — Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its load-bearing clause is Article 5: an armed attack on one is to be considered an attack on all, and each party will assist by taking "such action as it deems necessary". That last phrase matters — the commitment is political and each member decides its own response, which is why the alliance spent decades building integrated commands, forward-deployed forces and nuclear sharing arrangements to make the guarantee physically credible rather than merely textual. The treaty preceded the integrated military structure: it was the Korean War, from 1950, that turned a mutual guarantee into a standing military organisation with a supreme commander. France withdrew from the integrated command structure in 1966 while remaining a party to the treaty, which moved the headquarters from Paris to Brussels in 1967. Article 5 has been invoked exactly once, after the attacks on the United States of 11 September 2001 — never during the Cold War itself.
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4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
5. The Fulda Gap
6. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington
7. Connections
8. The Fulda Gap
9. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington
10. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington
11. The Korean War
12. The Warsaw Treaty is signed
13. Exercise Able Archer 83
14. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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16. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
17. Evidence
18. Supports the signature date and place, the twelve original parties, and the collective-defence formulation of Article 5 as used in this pack. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — www.nato.int is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring began. The Article 5 wording referred to here is reproduced from standing knowledge of a very widely quoted text and should be checked against the official version.