ABSTRACT
In 1966 the Warsaw Pact put out a declaration in Bucharest calling for a European security conference. Papering over internal differences it clumsily combined crude anti-American language with appeals to Europeans to abolish military alliances and set up a new system of collective security.
Nato worked towards a measured response, making a security conference conditional on, among other things, the participation of the US and Canada, a Berlin settlement, and the start of talks on mutual and balanced force reductions (MBFR).
