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NATO Watch News Briefs cover a range of NATO-related news items from around the world (below). This syndicated news feed is free. Feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news and features by adding the feed address to a news reader programme, or to your own website. There are various ways to subscribe, including:
NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller told a Vatican disarmament conference on 10 November that the UN treaty on the elimination of nuclear weapons agreed in July could undermine years of non-proliferation work and disrega
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General "strongly condemned" Pyongyang's nuclear missile test programme during his visit to Seoul on 2 November, but in a speech at the ASAN Institute for Policy Studies in the South Korean capital said that NATO had the "capabilities and resolve to respond to
Following the latest meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) on 26 October, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance and Russia "continue to hav
During a NATO-led international ballistic missile defence (BMD) exercise in October a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) fired from US guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook successfully intercepted a medium-range missile target off the c
The US-led NATO air and missile defence exercise known as Formidable Shield commenced on 24 September 2017 at the Hebrides Range in the Western Isles, off the north-west coast of Scotland.
In a Press Release dated 20 September, NATO denounced a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons as unrealistic and claimed that it risked undermining the international response to North Korea's nuclear arms programme.
A retired Soviet officer who prevented a possible nuclear war between the US/NATO and the Soviet Union in the 1980s quietly passed away on the 19 May in his home in Fryazino, near Moscow. He was 77. His death is only now being more widely reported.
NATO Watch News Briefs cover a range of NATO-related news items from around the world (below). This syndicated news feed is free. Feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news and features by adding the feed address to a news reader programme, or to your own website. There are various ways to subscribe, including:
NATO Deputy Secretary General defends alliance opposition to UN nuclear ban treaty at Vatican-sponsored conference
NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller told a Vatican disarmament conference on 10 November that the UN treaty on the elimination of nuclear weapons agreed in July could undermine years of non-proliferation work and disrega
North Korea’s nuclear programme "a clear and present danger", warns NATO Secretary General during visit to East Asia
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General "strongly condemned" Pyongyang's nuclear missile test programme during his visit to Seoul on 2 November, but in a speech at the ASAN Institute for Policy Studies in the South Korean capital said that NATO had the "capabilities and resolve to respond to
Latest NATO-Russia Council meeting fails to bridge key differences
Following the latest meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) on 26 October, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance and Russia "continue to hav
Medium-range missile target intercepted during NATO-led naval exercise Formidable Shield
During a NATO-led international ballistic missile defence (BMD) exercise in October a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) fired from US guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook successfully intercepted a medium-range missile target off the c
NATO opens Counter Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Krakow, Poland
NATO opened a counter intelligence hub in Poland on the 19 October aimed at expanding the alliance’s intelligence-gathering capabilities.
NATO unveils new Black Sea force in Romania as latest counter to Russia
On the 9 October NATO announced the launch of a new multinational Black Sea Force, the Multinational NATO South-East Brigade, headquartered in Craiova, southern Rom
United States military doubling down on the Taliban with a “tidal wave of air power” and more aggressive rules of engagement
Sixteen years after the United States first sent troops to fight the Taliban in 2001, Gen. John W.
US-led missile defence exercise Formidable Shield starts off the Scottish coast
The US-led NATO air and missile defence exercise known as Formidable Shield commenced on 24 September 2017 at the Hebrides Range in the Western Isles, off the north-west coast of Scotland.
NATO denounces UN nuclear weapon ban treaty
In a Press Release dated 20 September, NATO denounced a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons as unrealistic and claimed that it risked undermining the international response to North Korea's nuclear arms programme.
The man who averted nuclear war in 1983 dies peacefully in Moscow
A retired Soviet officer who prevented a possible nuclear war between the US/NATO and the Soviet Union in the 1980s quietly passed away on the 19 May in his home in Fryazino, near Moscow. He was 77. His death is only now being more widely reported.