Moreover, it was once hoped that NATO’s small number of non-strategic nuclear weapons sited in Europe could be withdrawn to the US, as they were widely considered militarily useless. Doing so, it was suggested, could lead Russia to remove its own tactical nuclear weapons.
此外，曾经人们希望北约部署在欧洲、被广泛认为没有什么军事用途的为数不多的非战略性核武器可以撤回美国。人们认为，这样做可以促使俄罗斯也撤掉它的战术核武器。但这两件事都没有发生。