A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that a complete cessation of nuclear test explosions must be related to the ability of the U.S. to maintain credible deterrent forces and that any test ban agreement must be verifiable and must be made in the context of deep and verifiable arms reductions.

Expresses the sense of the Congress to continue: (1) U.S. efforts to gain Soviet agreement to measures which will improve verification of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty; (2) to urge the Soviet Union to comply with the Threshold Test Ban Treaty; (3) U.S. programs which work for the improvement of worldwide verification of compliance with a nuclear test ban; and (4) U.S. nuclear testing programs while working for a verifiable nuclear test ban.