While we, of course, welcome European countries, primarily members of NATO, to increase their defense spending for conventional purposes, nuclear proliferation is not the way to a more stable and peaceful world. If we look back to In 1956, the United States had to step in to prevent the Suez crisis from escalating into a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union, Britain and France. In 1973, a nuclear alert. During the Arab Israeli war, United States nuclear forces were put on alert in response to what turned out to be, thankfully, a false alert. (08:28–08:42)
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Asserts U.S. intervention in 1956 prevented nuclear conflict during the Suez crisis.
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