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NATO Expansion: Flirting with Disaster
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n 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten European nations joined together
to create the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. Its purpose was clear: to shield a wartorn Western Europe against
Soviet military aggression. Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its security alliance, the Warsaw Pact, the now-16
member nations of NATO are looking to expand the alliance eastward.
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March 10, 1996
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