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the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) on its 
first day of opening for signature on July 1, 1968; 
Whereas the Senate gave its advice and consent to ratifica-
tion of the NPT on March 13, 1969, by a vote of 83 to 
15; 
Whereas the NPT entered into force on March 5, 1970, the 
date it was ratified by the United States and the Soviet 
Union; 
Whereas the NPT provides stability that is critical for United 
States and international security, and its success has and 
will continue to depend upon the full implementation by 
all State Parties of the NPT’s three mutually-reinforcing 
pillars: nonproliferation, access to peaceful uses of nu-
clear energy, and disarmament; 
Whereas United States leadership has been and will continue 
to be indispensable to the development and success of the 
global nuclear nonproliferation regime; 
Whereas on May 11, 1995, the NPT was extended indefi-
nitely; 
Whereas North Korea is the only non-nuclear weapon state 
that was a party to the NPT before acquiring nuclear 
weapons; 
Whereas the United States has supported the NPT’s disar-
mament goals by negotiating bilateral arms control agree-
ments and achieving dramatic reductions in its own and 
other states’ nuclear weapons stockpiles through these 
treaties, including the 1972 SALT I Treaty, the 1987 
INF Treaty, the 1991 START I Treaty, the 2002 Mos-
cow Treaty, and the 2010 New START treaty; 
Whereas the United States has promoted the NPT’s non-
proliferation pillar by supporting states that relinquished
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their nuclear weapons and acceded to the NPT, such as 
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and South Africa; 
Whereas the United States has worked to ensure the peaceful 
uses of nuclear energy by supporting the International 
Atomic Energy Agency and its safeguards programs, in-
cluding the Additional Protocol; 
Whereas the 2018 Department of Defense Nuclear Posture 
Review affirms, ‘‘The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 
(NPT) is a cornerstone of the nuclear nonproliferation 
regime. It plays a positive role in building consensus for 
non-proliferation and enhances international efforts to 
impose costs on those that would pursue nuclear weapons 
outside the Treaty.’’; 
Whereas on June 28, 2018, the United States, United King-
dom, and Russian governments released a joint state-
ment, reaffirming their commitment to work toward ‘‘the 
ultimate goal of the elimination of nuclear weapons, as 
set forth in the NPT’’; and 
Whereas Congress has long been a leading voice for non-
proliferation, including through the Export-Import Bank 
Act of 1945, the McMahon Act of 1946, the Atomic En-
ergy Act of 1954, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 
1978, the Export Administration Act of 1979, the Nunn- 
Lugar Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, the 
Nuclear Nonproliferation Prevention Act of 1994, and 
other legislative efforts: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls for continued support for the Treaty on 
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to 
prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, to further reduce
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the number of nuclear weapons, and to promote the 
peaceful use of nuclear energy as it has over the past 50 
years; 
(2) reaffirms that a strong nonproliferation regime 
is in the United States interest; 
(3) recognizes that the United States, through its 
network of alliances, has led the world upholding the pil-
lars of the NPT and continues to work together to 
strengthen the NPT; and 
(4) urges the United States to continue to be a 
leader in supporting the NPT and the global non-
proliferation regime, by— 
(A) continuing to encourage all States Party to 
the NPT to comply fully with the NPT; 
(B) maintaining support for the International 
Atomic Energy Agency through its assessed and 
voluntary contributions and promote the universal 
adoption of the IAEA Additional Protocol; 
(C) continuing to encourage opportunities for 
cooperation with other nuclear weapons states to re-
duce the number and role of nuclear weapons; 
(D) encouraging universality of the NPT and 
the Additional Protocol; 
(E) discouraging the unlawful spread of ura-
nium enrichment technologies and ensuring such
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technologies covered under the NPT are properly 
verified; 
(F) developing policies to prevent withdrawal 
of additional states parties from the Treaty; 
(G) maintaining global moratoria on nuclear 
explosive testing, which is in the national security 
interest of the United States; and 
(H) working towards a successful 2021 NPT 
Review Conference. 
Attest: 
Clerk.