Western Europe, defence

Cellulose based plastics and certain PVC formulations are vulnerable to attack from microorganisms. Specific biocides are targeted at particular organisms and can be more precisely defined as bactericides, fungicides, etc. Antimicrobial additives are now widely used in polyolefin kitchenware and bathroom accessories to act in defence of substances coming into contact with the polymer. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EUROPEAN UNION UK WESTERN EUROPE... 

In 1956 NATO confirmed that the nuclear bomb would constitute the prime defence of Western Europe. The use of conventional forces would be limited and the extensive reserves which such forces would otherwise require were to be drastically reduced. Stockpiling of ammunition for the fifty-six NATO divisions previously envisaged was stopped and ammunition already to hand was added to the war reserve of the forty divisions then in being. 

NATO s chemical defences and training, though bolstered in recent years, can neither conceal nor offset Western Europe s glaring vulnerability in civil defence. Contemporary chemical weapons are probably not intended for the purpose of large-scale strategic bombing, if only because the bombing of cities with chemical weapons could... 

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