A shrill bell rang in Athens' marble Parliament chamber, and the top ministers of the 15 North Atlantic Treaty nations sat down once again to debate the question of atomic weapons. As had been obvious for weeks, Washington's longstanding scheme to give NATO its own nuclear striking force was virtually dead before the annual spring conference began. Britain, with its own bomb, was not interested, and Charles de Gaulle was too busy developing France's force de frappe to concern himself with putting nuclear weapons in the hands of others. In fact, the U.S. itself now was less than enthusiastic...
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