(1) The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet 
Union no longer exists, and the Cold War is over. 
The nature of threats to the national security and 
military interests of the United States has changed. 
However, the United States continues to maintain 
an excessively large and costly arsenal of nuclear de-
livery systems and warheads that are a holdover 
from the Cold War. 
(2) The current nuclear arsenal of the United 
States includes approximately 3,800 total nuclear 
warheads in its military stockpile, of which approxi-
mately 1,750 are deployed with five delivery compo-
nents: land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, 
submarine-launched ballistic missiles, long-range 
strategic bomber aircraft armed with nuclear gravity 
bombs, long-range strategic bomber aircraft armed 
with nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missiles, and 
short-range fighter aircraft that can deliver nuclear 
gravity bombs. The strategic bomber fleet of the 
United States comprises 87 B–52 and 20 B–2 air-
craft, over 60 of which contribute to the nuclear 
mission. The United States also maintains 400 
intercontinental ballistic missiles and 14 Ohio-class 
submarines, up to 12 of which are deployed. Each 
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of those submarines is armed with approximately 90 
nuclear warheads. 
(3) The maintenance of this force comes at sig-
nificant cost. Between fiscal years 2019 and 2028, 
the United States will spend $494,000,000,000 to 
maintain and recapitalize its nuclear force, according 
to a January 2019 estimate from the Congressional 
Budget Office. This is $94,000,000,000 higher than 
the Congressional Budget Office’s 2017 estimate, 
with additional cost driven in part by the new nu-
clear weapons called for in the 2018 Nuclear Pos-
ture Review. Over the next 30 years, the price tag 
is likely to exceed $1,500,000,000,000 and could 
even approach $2,000,000,000,000. 
(4) Numerous United States Government offi-
cials have warned of the affordability problem posed 
by the current nuclear weapons sustainment plans, 
cautioning that these plans cannot be executed in 
the absence of significant long-term increases to de-
fense spending or cuts to other military priorities. 
For example, Brian McKeon, former Principal Dep-
uty Under Secretary of Defense stated in October 
2015 that: ‘‘We’re looking at that big bow wave [in 
nuclear weapons spending] and wondering how the 
heck we’re going to pay for it, and probably thank-
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ing our lucky stars we won’t be here to answer the 
question.’’ Projected spending on the nuclear weap-
ons budget has grown even larger since 2015. 
(5) The projected growth in nuclear weapons 
spending is coming due as the Department of De-
fense is seeking to replace large portions of its con-
ventional forces to better compete with the Russian 
Federation and the People’s Republic of China and 
as internal and external fiscal pressures are likely to 
limit the growth of, and perhaps reduce, military 
spending. ‘‘We’re going to have enormous pressure 
on reducing the debt which means that defense 
spending—I’d like to tell you it’s going to keep 
going up—[but] I’m not terribly optimistic.’’, Alan 
Shaffer, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Ac-
quisition and Sustainment, said in February 2019. 
(6) A substantial decrease in spending on the 
nuclear arsenal of the United States is prudent for 
both the budget and for national security. The De-
partment of Defense’s June 2013 nuclear policy 
guidance entitled ‘‘Report on Nuclear Employment 
Strategy of the United States’’ found that force lev-
els under the April 2010 Treaty on Measures for the 
Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Of-
fensive Arms between the United States and the 
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Russian Federation (commonly known as the ‘‘New 
START Treaty’’) ‘‘are more than adequate for what 
the United States needs to fulfill its national secu-
rity objectives’’ and can be reduced by up to 1⁄3 
below levels under the New START Treaty to 1,000 
to 1,100 warheads. 
(7) A December 2018 Congressional Budget 
Office analysis showed that the projected costs of 
nuclear forces over the next decade can be reduced 
by $8,000,000,000 to $9,000,000,000 by trimming 
back current plans, while still maintaining a triad of 
delivery systems. Even larger savings would accrue 
over the subsequent decade. 
(8) Even without additional reductions below 
the New START Treaty limit of 1,550 deployed 
strategic warheads, the United States can save tens 
of billions of dollars by deploying those warheads 
more efficiently on delivery systems and by deferring 
production of new delivery systems until they are 
needed. 
(9) President Donald Trump is proposing to ex-
pand the role of, and spending on, nuclear weapons 
in United States policy at the same time that it has 
undermined critical arms control and nonprolifera-
tion agreements. The President has provided no 
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clear indication that the President intends to extend 
the New START Treaty. The potential expiration of 
that treaty will remove all limits on the size of the 
United States and Russian nuclear arsenals, height-
ening further the risk of unconstrained nuclear 
weapons competition and even greater spending on 
nuclear weapons. 
SEC. 3. REDUCTIONS IN NUCLEAR FORCES. 
(a) 
REDUCTION
OF
NUCLEAR-ARMED
SUB-
MARINES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds authorized to be appropriated or other-
wise made available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year 
thereafter for the Department of Defense may be obli-
gated or expended for purchasing more than eight Colum-
bia-class submarines. 
(b) REDUCTION
OF GROUND-BASED MISSILES.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in 
fiscal year 2020, the forces of the Air Force shall include 
not more than 150 intercontinental ballistic missiles. 
(c) REDUCTION
OF DEPLOYED STRATEGIC WAR-
HEADS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, be-
ginning in fiscal year 2020, the forces of the United States 
Military shall include not more than 1,000 deployed stra-
tegic warheads, as that term is defined in the New START 
Treaty. 
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(d) LIMITATION
ON
NEW
LONG-RANGE
PENE-
TRATING
BOMBER
AIRCRAFT.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, none of the funds authorized to 
be appropriated or otherwise made available for any of fis-
cal years 2020 through 2028 for the Department of De-
fense may be obligated or expended for purchasing more 
than 80 B–21 long-range penetrating bomber aircraft. 
(e) PROHIBITION
ON F–35 NUCLEAR MISSION.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year thereafter 
for the Department of Defense or the Department of En-
ergy may be used to make the F–35 Joint Strike Fighter 
aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. 
(f) PROHIBITION ON NEW AIR-LAUNCHED CRUISE 
MISSILE.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds authorized to be appropriated or other-
wise made available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year 
thereafter for the Department of Defense or the Depart-
ment of Energy may be obligated or expended for the re-
search, development, test, and evaluation or procurement 
of the long-range stand-off weapon or any other new air- 
launched cruise missile or for the W80 warhead life exten-
sion program. 
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(g) PROHIBITION ON NEW INTERCONTINENTAL BAL-
LISTIC MISSILE.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
otherwise made available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal 
year thereafter for the Department of Defense may be ob-
ligated or expended for the research, development, test, 
and evaluation or procurement of the ground-based stra-
tegic deterrent or any new intercontinental ballistic mis-
sile. 
(h) TERMINATION OF URANIUM PROCESSING FACIL-
ITY.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise 
made available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year 
thereafter for the Department of Defense or the Depart-
ment of Energy may be obligated or expended for the Ura-
nium Processing Facility located at the Y–12 National Se-
curity Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 
(i) PROHIBITION ON PROCUREMENT AND DEPLOY-
MENT OF NEW LOW-YIELD WARHEAD.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, none of the funds authorized 
to be appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal 
year 2020 or any fiscal year thereafter for the Department 
of Defense or the Department of Energy may be obligated 
or expended to procure or deploy the W76–2 low-yield nu-
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clear warhead or any other low-yield or nonstrategic nu-
clear warhead. 
(j) PROHIBITION ON NEW SUBMARINE-LAUNCHED 
CRUISE MISSILE.—Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, none of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2020 or any 
fiscal year thereafter for the Department of Defense or 
the Department of Energy may be obligated or expended 
for the research, development, test, and evaluation or pro-
curement of a new submarine-launched cruise missile ca-
pable of carrying a low-yield or nonstrategic nuclear war-
head. 
(k) LIMITATION ON PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year thereafter 
for the Department of Defense or the Department of En-
ergy may be obligated or expended for achieving produc-
tion of more than 30 plutonium pits per year at Los Ala-
mos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. 
(l) LIMITATION
ON W87–1 WARHEAD PROCURE-
MENT AND DEPLOYMENT.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, none of the funds authorized to be appro-
priated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2020 
or any fiscal year thereafter for the Department of De-
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fense or the Department of Energy may be obligated or 
expended for the procurement or deployment of the W87– 
1 warhead for use on any missile that can feasibly employ 
a W87 warhead. 
(m) LIMITATION
ON
SUSTAINMENT
OF
B83–1 
BOMB.—Notwithstanding other provision of law, none of 
the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year thereafter 
for the Department of Defense or the Department of En-
ergy may be obligated or expended for the sustainment 
of the B83–1 bomb beyond the time at which confidence 
in the B61–12 stockpile is gained. 
(n) PROHIBITION
ON SPACE-BASED MISSILE DE-
FENSE.—Notwithstanding other provision of law, none of 
the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available for fiscal year 2020 or any fiscal year thereafter 
for the Department of Defense or the Department of En-
ergy may be obligated or expended for the research, devel-
opment, test, and evaluation or procurement of a space- 
based missile defense system. 
SEC. 4. REPORTS REQUIRED. 
(a) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Defense and the Secretary of Energy shall jointly submit 
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to the appropriate committees of Congress a report out-
lining the plan of each Secretary to carry out section 3. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than March 1, 
2021, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretary of Energy shall jointly submit to the 
appropriate committees of Congress a report outlining the 
plan of each Secretary to carry out section 3, including 
any updates to previously submitted reports. 
(c) ANNUAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS ACCOUNTING.— 
Not later than September 30, 2020, and annually there-
after, the President shall transmit to the appropriate com-
mittees of Congress a report containing a comprehensive 
accounting by the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget of the amounts obligated and expended by the 
Federal Government for each nuclear weapon and related 
nuclear program during— 
(1) the fiscal year covered by the report; and 
(2) the life cycle of such weapon or program. 
(d) COST ESTIMATE REPORT.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy shall jointly 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
outlining the estimated cost savings that result from car-
rying out section 3. 
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(e) REPORT
ON
FUNDING
NATIONAL
DEFENSE 
STRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
explaining how the Secretary proposes to fund the 2018 
National Defense Strategy under different levels of pro-
jected defense spending, including scenarios in which— 
(1) anticipated cost savings from reform do not 
materialize; or 
(2) defense spending decreases to the levels 
specified by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public 
Law 112–25; 125 Stat. 240). 
(f) MODIFICATION OF PERIOD TO BE COVERED BY 
ESTIMATES OF COSTS RELATING TO NUCLEAR WEAP-
ONS.—Section 1043 of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112–81; 125 
Stat. 1576), as most recently amended by section 1670 
of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 
2157), is further amended in subsections (a)(2)(F) and 
(b)(1)(A) by strikning ‘‘10-year period’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘25-year period’’. 
(g) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit-
tees of Congress’’ means— 
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