Dual-use technology experts have indicated that perhaps as many as half of the proposed items can be decontrolled without national security consequences.

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The remaining half of the list of technologies and items to be decontrolled, however, pose serious problems for U.S. efforts to maintain qualitative lead-times over the Soviet military.

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The drawings reveal a wide array of potentially significant contributions to future Soviet weapon systems that will be made by Western technologies now in the process of being decontrolled.

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