Decades Late, NATO Readies Adieu to Home

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BY STEPHEN FIDLER
BRUSSELS—Forty-six years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization moved into these “temporary” headquarters on the outskirts of the Belgian capital, the alliance is still here.
For decades, the rambling low-rise buildings formed the backdrop of the alliance’s Cold War machinations against its longtime adversary, the Soviet Union. Now, the alliance is waging a less dramatic battle—keeping the buildings in shape until it moves into its €730 million ($972 million) headquarters, with its swooping arcs of steel and glass, across the road in 2016.
Built in eight months in 1967—after French President Charles de Gaulle ousted non-French NATO troops from French …
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