BTW a more guidelines-compliant response to what you're asking would have been: "What leads you to believe that that's actually the case (that NATO was about t

BTW a more guidelines-compliant response to what you're asking would have been: "What leads you to believe that that's actually the case (that NATO was about to, or was likely at some point down the road to do that)?" Given that in the 30 years since the fall of the USSR, NATO still hasn't stationed nukes in any of the newer member countries, nor would there be any strategic benefit for them to do so.