Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) develop and maintain a nuclear weapons posture consistent with promoting U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy objectives; and (2) reduce the proliferation risks posed by the world's stockpile of plutonium.
Requires the United States, in order to develop and maintain such a posture, to: (1) withdraw from deployment and dismantle all tactical nuclear weapons in the context of a bilateral agreement with the Russian Federation to eliminate such weapons; (2) adopt a policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons against countries who are parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or a comparable international regime; and (3) declare its intention to reduce its strategic nuclear arsenal to levels below START II, in the context of similar reductions by the Russian Federation and strategic reductions by the United Kingdom, France, and China.
Directs the United States to: (1) choose a weapons-plutonium disposition option that cannot be perceived as representing U.S. approval of separated plutonium fuel cycles; (2) discourage the civil use of plutonium overseas by identifying alternatives to civilian reprocessing of plutonium and pursuing these alternatives; and (3) seek a nondiscriminatory, multilateral, and internationally verifiable treaty that ends production of weapons-usable fissile material for any other purpose.
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[H.R. 4332 Introduced in House (IH)]
103d CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4332
To set forth the policy of the United States for nuclear
nonproliferation.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 3, 1994
Mr. McCloskey (for himself and Mr. Stark) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To set forth the policy of the United States for nuclear
nonproliferation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. POLICY FOR NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION.
(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) On September 27, 1993, the President declared to the
United Nations that one of the world's most urgent priorities
must be to impede the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction.
(2) In a joint statement issued on January 16, 1994, the
President and the President of the Russian Federation declared
that the proliferation of nuclear weapons creates a serious
threat to the security of all States.
(3) The President and the President of the Russian
Federation further declared that the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is the basis for efforts to
ensure the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and called for
its indefinite and unconditional extension at a conference of
its participants in 1995, and they urged that all states that
have not yet done so accede to this Treaty.
(4) The principle obstacle to the indefinite and
unconditional extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons is the concern of the states without nuclear
weapons that the states with nuclear weapons have not yet
fulfilled their commitment (made 25 years ago in the Treaty) to
pursue negotiations toward nuclear disarmament and, in
particular, to end the testing of nuclear weapons.
(5) In its report issued in 1994 and entitled Management
and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, the National
Academy of Sciences reported that the risks posed by all forms
of plutonium must be addressed and that further steps should be
taken to reduce the proliferation risks posed by all of the
world's plutonium stocks, both military and civilian.
(6) The National Academy of Sciences reported in the report
that policy makers will have to take into account the fact that
choosing to use weapons plutonium in reactors would be
perceived by some as representing generalized United States
approval of separated plutonium fuel cycles, thereby
compromising the ability of the United States to oppose such
fuel cycles elsewhere.
(7) In section 1611 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103-160; 107 Stat. 1848),
the Congress called for a comprehensive policy to end the
further spread of nuclear weapons capability, to roll back
nuclear proliferation where it has occurred, and to prevent the
use of nuclear weapons anywhere in the world, and set forth
eleven objectives to achieve this goal.
(8) One of the goals set forth in such section is to
support the indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the 1995 conference of its
participants in order to review and extend the treaty and to
seek to ensure that all countries sign the treaty or
participate in a comparable international regime for monitoring
and safeguarding nuclear facilities and material.
(9) The Congress has played a critical role in the
formulation of United States nonproliferation policy and must
express its views on the future of the nuclear weapons posture
of the United States in order to ensure a complete review of
that posture.
(b) Policy.--The following shall be the policy of the United
States:
(1) To develop and maintain a nuclear weapons posture
consistent with promoting United States nuclear
nonproliferation policy objectives. To develop and maintain
that posture, the United States shall--
(A) withdraw from deployment and dismantle all of
its tactical nuclear weapons in the context of a
bilateral agreement with the Russian Federation to
eliminate all tactical nuclear weapons;
(B) adopt a policy of no-first-use of nuclear
weapons against countries which are party to the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or a
comparable international regime; and
(C) declare its intention to reduce its strategic
nuclear arsenal to levels below START II, in the
context of similar reductions by the Russian
Federation, and strategic nuclear reductions by the
United Kingdom, France, and the People's Republic of
China.
(2) To reduce the proliferation risks posed by the world's
large stockpile of plutonium from military and civilian
sources. To achieve this objective, the United States shall--
(A) choose a weapons-plutonium disposition option
that cannot be perceived as representing United States
approval of separated plutonium fuel cycles;
(B) discourage the civil use of plutonium overseas
by identifying alternatives to civilian reprocessing of
plutonium and pursuing these alternatives with
countries that have civilian plutonium programs; and
(C) seek a nondiscriminatory, multilateral, and
internationally and effectively verifiable treaty that
ends production of weapons-usable fissile material for
any other purpose.
(c) Reports.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the Congress a
report on the status of efforts by the United States to achieve the
policy described in subsection (b).
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights.
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