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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp85t00275r000100200006-8: NSSD 1-82 SUMMARY OF PART III-A: THREATS TO UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY

i~ P ran r_ Approved For Release 2011/08/05: CIA-RDP85T00275R000100200006-8 22 March 82 NSSD 1-82 Summary of Part III-A: Threats to United States National Security 1. The key military threats to US national security continue to be posed by the USSR and its allies and clients. Despite increasing pressures and constraints on its economy and the growing political and military vulnerabilities of its empire, the Soviet Union continues to expand and modernize its strategic and conventional forces. Current Soviet leaders, moreover, are probably prepared to accept the necessary sacrifices to sustain t…