On the 2 December 1981, as the Euromissiles crisis unfolds, the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) adopts Recommendation 375 on negotiations on theatre nuclear forces. Noting the growing number of land-based theatre nuclear forces deployed by the Soviet Union in Europe, the Assembly recommends that the WEU Council should urge the North Atlantic Council to continue to rely on the dual-track decision of 12 December 1979 on long-range theatre nuclear forces — the NATO decision to install missiles in Western Europe in response to Soviet SS-20 missiles and at the same time to begin talks to secure their withdrawal — as a realistic basis for future negotiations. The Assembly also asks the Council to make every effort to ensure that the public acquires a better understanding of the situation, particularly of the balance of forces.