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In the debate over the future of NATO’s nuclear policy, the countries of Central Europe are usually presented as the staunch supporters of the nuclear status quo, in favor of the permanent deployment of the US nuclear weapons in Europe out of the fear of Russia. In fact, their attitude towards the role of nuclear weapons and wider issue of the deterrence policy of the North Atlantic Alliance is much more varied and nuanced, and reducing them to a "no changes" camp can result in the oversimplification of the picture and hampers the understanding of the motives of their choices in foreign and security policy.