§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the number of nuclear weapons withdrawn from deployment by NATO in Europe(a) as a result of unilateral decisions by NATO, (b) as a result of bilateral negotiations with the former Soviet Union and the 300W Commonwealth of Independent States and (c) as a result of multilateral negotiations with former members of the Warsaw treaty organisation since 1979.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThe number of nuclear warheads deployed by NATO in Europe has since the late 1970s been reduced by some 90 per cent, to a current toal of well under 1,000. This includes the elimination of all ground-launched and tactical martime nuclear weapons in Europe. The withdrawal of some 400 ground-launched cruise missiles and Pershing II missiles came specifically under the bilateral US/USSR INF treaty, other reductions have resulted from reassessments, within the alliance, of NATO's minimum security requirements.