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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO)

NATO was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 04,1949



The founding members of NATO in 1949 are - Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States

NATO has 12 original founding member nation states and from February 18,1952 to April 01,2009 it added 16 more member nations

NATO is an Alliance that consists of 28 independent member countries
 

All members have militaries, except for Iceland which does not have a typical army (but does, however, have a Coast Guard and a small unit of soldiers for NATO operations)

Three of NATO's members are Nuclear Weapon States - FRance ,UK and USA

NATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party

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