While US troops could be easily flown across the Atlantic, the heavy equipment and armor reinforcements would have to come by sea and be delivered to POMCUS (Pre-positioned Overseas Materiel Configured to Unit Sets) sites. Timely reinforcement was a critical part of the NATO reinforcement exercises. The United States (https://www.pipihosa.com/2023/11/21/tokens-in-secs-crosshairs-are-posting-double-digit-year-to-date-returns/) needed to be able to send active-duty army divisions to Europe within ten days as part of a wartime NATO general deployment. Allied abilities to carry out transcontinental reinforcement. These exercises tested the United States.

Tensions grew between the two superpowers: American. Admiral Daniel J. Murphy of the US Sixth Fleet reckoned the chances of the Soviet squadron attempting a first strike against his fleet at 40 percent. No attempt was made to use the Moscow-Washington hotline to clarify the situation with the USSR. Soviet naval forces came close to firing upon each other in the Mediterranean Sea. It was not until early-warning radar systems confirmed no such launch had taken place that NORAD realized that a computer system test had caused the display errors. The United States made emergency retaliation preparations after NORAD systems indicated that a full-scale Soviet attack had been launched.

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Exercise Strikeback was a major NATO naval exercise held in 1957, simulating a response to an all-out Soviet attack on NATO. The exercise involved over 200 warships, 650 aircraft, and 75,000 personnel from the United States Navy, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the French Navy, the Royal Netherlands Navy, and the Royal Norwegian Navy. As the largest peacetime naval operation up to that time, Exercise Strikeback was characterized by military analyst Hanson W. Baldwin of The New York Times as “constituting the strongest striking fleet assembled since World War II”. Exercise Reforger (return of forces to Germany) was an annual exercise conducted during the Cold War by NATO.

In case of war, the weapons are to be mounted on the participating countries’ warplanes. With the initiation of the Cold War arms race in the 1950s, an apocalyptic war between the United States and the Soviet Union became a real possibility. The weapons are under custody and control of USAF Munitions Support Squadrons co-located on NATO main operating bases that work together with the host nation forces. 180 tactical B61 nuclear bombs of the 480 US nuclear weapons believed to be deployed in Europe fall under the nuclear sharing arrangement. The weapons are stored within a vault in hardened aircraft shelters, using the USAF WS3 Weapon Storage and Security System. The delivery warplanes used are F-16 Fighting Falcons and Panavia Tornados.