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    "ocrText": "TOT SECRET\nCONCLUSIONS\nTHREATS TO THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES\n14. The gravest threat to the security of the United States\nwithin the foreseeable future stems from the hostile designs and\nformidable power of the USSR, and from the nature of the Soviet\nsystem.\n15. The political, economic, and psychological warfare which\nthe USSR is now waging has dangerous potentialities for weakening\nthe relative world position of the United States and disrupting its\ntraditional institutions by means short of war, unless sufficient\nresistance is encountered in the policies of this and other non-\ncommunist countries.\n16. The risk of war with the USSR is sufficient to warrant,\nin common prudence, timely and adequate preparation by the United\nStates.\na. Even though present estimates indicate that the So-\nviet leaders probably do not intend deliberate armed action\ninvolving the United States at this time, the possibility of\nsuch deliberate resort to war cannot be ruled out.\nb. Now and for the foreseeable future there is a contin-\nuing danger that war will arise either through Soviet miscal-\nculation of the determination of the United States to use all\nthe means at its command to safeguard its security, through\nSoviet misinterpretation of our intentions, or through U. S.\nmiscalculation of Soviet reactions to measures which we migh t\ntake.\nNSC 20/3\n- 8 -\nTOP SECRET"
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