Western European Union see Western Union
Western Union (Brussels Treaty): formed, 11–13, 16, 18–21; renamed, 26; West Germany admitted to, 54
Western Union Defence Organization, 12, 20, 391–3
Whence the Threat to Peace? (Soviet publication), 29
Wilson, Harold, 386
‘withholds’ (exempted targets), 87n, 90, 364, 366
World War I (1914–18): outbreak and mobilization, 326–7
World War II: mine warfare, 219; and amphibious warfare, 223
Yakubovsky, Marshal I. I., 57
Yamato (Japanese battleship), 217
Yom Kippur War (1973), 29, 319–20
Yugoslavia: relations with USSR, 4, 8; turns to West, 8; independence of USSR, 57, 64
Zossen-Wünstorf, East Germany, 250
Zuckerman, Sir Solly, 356
List of Illustrations
1. A prelude to the Cold War: the Berlin Airlift, 1948–9
2. NATO’s first leaders: General Eisenhower and Lord Ismay
3. NATO at work: President Kennedy in West Berlin, 1963, and the North Atlantic Council meeting in The Hague, May 1979
4. Confrontation on the streets of West Berlin, October 1961: Soviet tanks and US tanks
5. Confrontation: in the skies and in public opinion
6. The Warsaw Pact on exercise and in the conference chamber
7. Strategic power at sea: the Soviet Typhoon-class missile submarine
8. Nuclear weapons: Soviet and British
9. Land-based strategic power: the US Minuteman and Soviet MIRV warheads
10. The original battlefield nuclear weapons: the US army’s 280 mm ‘atomic cannon’ and the shell that it launched
11. US seapower: USS John F. Kennedy and USS Kitty Hawk
12. Sea power: British frigate HMS Cumberland and a Soviet Kresta II-class cruiser
13. NATO solidarity: ships in Grand Harbour, Malta, and the Boeing E-3 Sentry
14. Different solutions to the air-defence problem: the Soviet ZSU-23-4 and the US Sergeant York
15. The results of an early attempt to achieve standardization: the French AMX-30 tank and the West German Leopard 1
16. The symbol of the end of the Cold War: East German guards look on as a West Berliner attacks the Wall, November 1989
The author and publisher wish to acknowledge the following for permission to reproduce illustrations: 1, 3 (above), 4 (above), 4 (below), Landesbildstelle, Berlin; 2 (above), 2 (below), 3 (below), 13 (below), NATO Pictures; 5 (above), US Navy; 5 (below), 6 (above), 7, 9 (above), 9 (below), 11 (below), 12 (below), 14 (above), US Department of Defense; 6 (below), Keystone; 8 (above), Press Association; 8 (below), 90 Squadron, RAF, via Peter Green; 10 (above), 10 (below), US National Atomic Museum; 11 (above), Yarrow Shipbuilders; 12 (above), 13 (above), 16, Popperfoto; 14 (below), Ford Aerospace; 15 (above), AMX, France; 15 (below), Krauss Maffei, Germany.
1. The Northern Hemisphere
2. Central Europe: The Cockpit of the Cold War
3. The Soviet Attack Plan
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