唯一例外的是法国总统戴高乐，他质询如果没有涉及到美国本国的利益情况下，其他成员国受到苏联的攻击，美国是否会对苏联进行核打击。
French President Charles de Gaulle was the only one to question whether an American president would actually ever be ready to launch a nuclear attack on the USSR in order to protect one or several Alliance members if vital US interests were not directly at stake.