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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4332
To set forth the policy of the United States for nuclear nonproliferation.
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
A BILL
To set forth the policy of the United States for nuclear
nonproliferation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 de-
clared to the United Nations that one of the world’s
most urgent priorities must be to impede the pro-
liferation of weapons of mass destruction.
(2) In a joint statement issued on January 16,
1994, the President and the President of the Rus-
sian Federation declared that the proliferation of
nuclear weapons creates a serious threat to the secu-
rity 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 nu-
clear weapons and called for its indefinite and un-
conditional extension at a conference of its partici-
pants 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 re-
ported that the risks posed by all forms of pluto-
nium 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 compromis-
ing 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 pro-
liferation 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 re-
view 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 nu-
clear nonproliferation policy objectives. To develop
and maintain that posture, the United States shall—
(A) withdraw from deployment and dis-
mantle all of its tactical nuclear weapons in the
context of a bilateral agreement with the Rus-
sian Federation to eliminate all tactical nuclear
weapons;
(B) adopt a policy of no-first-use of nu-
clear weapons against countries which are party
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nu-
clear Weapons or a comparable international
regime; and
(C) declare its intention to reduce its stra-
tegic nuclear arsenal to levels below START II,
in the context of similar reductions by the Rus-
sian Federation, and strategic nuclear reduc-
tions 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 mili-
tary and civilian sources. To achieve this objective,
the United States shall—
(A) choose a weapons-plutonium disposi-
tion option that cannot be perceived as rep-
resenting 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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