ABSTRACT
The United States embarks on a new geopolitical strategy, the relatively stable balance of terror between Washington and Moscow begins to tip the emerging Eurostrategic nuclear balance. On 22 June 1973, the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had concluded an "Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War". This agreement caused deep consternation amongst the European allies because it precluded the use of nuclear weapons-a central feature of Alliance strategy. On 26 June 1974 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) heads of state and government sign a declaration on future transatlantic relations to mark the 25th anniversary of the alliance. Less than a month later one NATO member, Turkey, invades Cyprus and comes close to war with another NATO member, Greece. In 1949 NATO was a mechanism for the organization of Europeans behind American leadership. By 1989 it had become the forum for the political conduct of the strategic transatlantic relationship.
