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Ints Kalnins/Reuters During the Cold War, NATO effectively defended Western Europe with US nuclear weapons. Twelve countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949, and NATO has since grown to 29 countries, including former Soviet states bordering Russia, which has angered Moscow. Here are six occasions, from the building of the Berlin Wall to the […]