18 December 1962
Nassau Conference
Kennedy meets Macmillan at Nassau to resolve the Skybolt crisis and discuss a substitute nuclear system
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Nassau in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Kennedy meets Macmillan at Nassau to resolve the Skybolt crisis and discuss a substitute nuclear system
McNamara participates in discussions over Skybolt cancellation and the proposed sale of Polaris to Britain
Kennedy agrees that the United States will make Polaris missiles available to Britain after Skybolt cancellation
Rusk supports language linking British Polaris forces to NATO except where supreme national interests are at stake
The Nassau settlement forms the basis for the later Polaris Sales Agreement between the United States and Britain
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