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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION
DIRECTIVE NUMBER 165
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FIRST ROUND OF US/SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS
IN GENEVA (U)
Our nation faces a number of challenges to its national
opportunities. TO achieve our national goals, we will have to
security. Each of these imposes demands and presents
apply all the instruments at our disposal in a coherent and
complementary way. (U)
The Soviet Union remains the principal menace to our security
and that of our allies. As a part of a larger effort to improve
its overall military capability, the Soviet Union's improvement of
its ballistic missile force, providing increased prompt, hard
target kill capability, has increasingly threatened the
fundamental survivability of our land-based retaliatory forces and
the leadership structure that commands them. At the same time,
the Soviet Union has continued to pursue strategic advantage
through the development of active defenses with increased
capability to counter surviving U.S. retaliatory forces. It is
spending significant resources on passive defensive measures aimed
at improving the survivability of its own forces, military command
structure, and national leadership -- ranging from providing
mobility for its latest generation of ICBMs, to constructing a
network of super-hard bunkers to protect its leadership -- thus
further eroding the effectiveness of our existing offensive
deterrent. Finally, the problem of Soviet non-compliance with
arms control agreements, including the ABM Treaty, is a cause of
increasing concern. ($14
In response to this long-term pattern of Soviet activity, the
United States is compelled to take certain immediate actions
designed both to maintain security and stability in the near-term act
and to ensure security and stability in the future. We must
in three areas. 1944
First, we must modernize our offensive nuclear retaliatory
forces. This is necessary to reestablish and maintain the balance
in the near-term, and to create the strategic conditions that will
permit us to pursue effectively the other options I will mention.
The Administration's comprehensive strategic modernization program
permits us to implement this sied sa 1-31-96
redes provisors c/ E.O. 13958
by J. Saundera, National Security Corneil
UNGENSSIFED
OADR
COPS
DE 13 COPIES
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