After math of the Treaty. The Updating of an Alliance, by François Heisbourg The Washington Treaty brings Europe back to the statu quo of the 1970s. Europeans have anxieties which are not without validity. The trauma of the 1986 Reykjavik Summit endures. There is a real fear of an irreversible momentum towards the denuclearisation of Europe, which has been the objective of the USSR for 30 years. Increased European initiative and cooperation must be the overriding concern of the years ahead. Common action can be taken on three fronts. The Atlantic Alliance must not allow the USSR to steal the initiative in the field of conventional disarmament. Strategy and defence policy must be reexamined 20 years after the adoption, of the Harmel Report i...