"The most important strategic threat to the Western alliance at present," according to General Sir John Sharp of NATO, is the buildup of Soviet naval and military forces on Russia's Kola peninsula, just over the border from the northern tip of Norway. In this once-barren Arctic region, the focus of which is the major port of Murmansk, the Soviet Union has based a substantial part of its naval and strategic nuclear capability.
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