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NATO Speech: Address to the German American Roundtable of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Speech by Secretary General, Manfred ...25 Oct. 1989 and the advent of an age of global communications have perhaps propelled us into a new era of a high-pitched evolution of history altogether. This process of acceleration is not limited to the East-West power equation. New dynamic forces of contemporary history | Opinion |
Address given at the 35th Annual Session of the North Atlantic Assembly09 Oct. 1989 of modern industrialised societies in the age of global communication. And even more important: second, because you cannot suppress freedom forever. The natural aspiration of men to live and work freely is the driving force behind the historical process | Opinion |
NATO Speech: 40th Anniversary of NATO Address to the North Atlantic Council (<a href="#footnotes"><sup>1</sup></a>) by Secre...04 Apr. 1989 all those tensions that in any earlier age could have quite easily led to war. Defence is not a brake on detente. It is the prerequisite of all productive East-West development. French section follows?. Tout au long de ces quarante dernières années | Opinion |
Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture by Secretary General, Manfred Wörner23 Nov. 1988 the awareness of the citizens that all the measures necessary to preserve peace in the nuclear age are taken responsibly and purposefully. Let us be in no doubt: nuclear deterrence has underpinned the deterrent strategy of NATO throughout its existence | Opinion |
Special Meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers (The ''Double-Track'' Decision on Theatre Nuclear Forces)12 Dec. 1979 . During this period, while the Soviet Union has been reinforcing its superiority in Long Range Theatre Nuclear Forces (LRTNF) both quantitatively and qualitatively, Western LRTNF capabilities have remained static. Indeed these forces are increasing in age | Official text |
Final Communiqué14 Nov. 1979 , are vulnerable and, in some cases, ageing systems while the Soviet Union had continued to build-up and improve its theatre nuclear systems. In the light of these factors, a gap in long-range theatre nuclear force capabilities already exists and is steadily | Official text |
Final Communiqué09 Dec. 1971 and reconnaissance air forces; improved air defences and aircraft protection; better maritime surveillance and anti-sub-marine forces; more maritime patrol aircraft and seaborne missile systems; the replacement of over-age ships; the strengthening and modernization | Official text |
Building the Berlin Wall13 Aug. 1961 . Olga Segler, aged 80, died in September 1961 while attempting to reach West Berlin to attend her daughter’s wedding. She is thought to be the oldest person to have died trying to cross the Berlin Wall. | Declassified |
Paris Summit Final Communiqué issued by the NATO Heads of State and Government (1957)16 Dec. 1957 forces. In the Soviet view, all European nations except the USSR should, without waiting for general disarmament, renounce nuclear weapons and missiles and rely on arms of the preatomic age. As long as the Soviet Union persists in this attitude, we | Official text |
Speech Address by H.E. PAUL-HENRI SPAAK, Secretary General of NATO, before the Overseas Press Club New York, November 1, 1957.01 Nov. 1957 Community for the development of men who can deal with the space age. But we must look further. Ten to twenty years from now, our need for men trained in these fields will be twice as much as it is now and we must now encourage our young people to take | Opinion |
