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With the exception of the relatively few British nuclear weapons committed to the alliance the United States was the nuclear armourer of NATO. It supplied not only the bulk of nuclear weapons for the alliance but also all of the nuclear weapons intended for use by the NATO allies through bilateral nuclear-sharing agreements. Understanding the command and control of these weapons is consequently pivotal to understanding nuclear command and control in the NATO alliance as a whole.
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© 1996 Shaun R. Gregory
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Gregory, S.R. (1996). US Nuclear Command and Control in NATO. In: Nuclear Command and Control in NATO. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379107_4
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