I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1334 
To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion in accord-
ance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992, 
while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 1, 2011 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic con-
version in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative 
Measure Number 37 of 1992, while ensuring environ-
mental restoration and clean-energy conversion. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nuclear Weapons Abo-
lition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLI-
TION AND ECONOMIC AND ENERGY CONVER-
SION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The United States Government 
shall— 
(1) by the date that is three years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, provide leadership 
to negotiate a multilateral treaty or other inter-
national agreement that provides for— 
(A) the dismantlement and elimination of 
all nuclear weapons in every country by not 
later than 2020; and 
(B) strict and effective international con-
trol of such dismantlement and elimination; 
(2) redirect resources that are being used for 
nuclear weapons programs to use— 
(A) in converting all nuclear weapons in-
dustry employees, processes, plants, and pro-
grams smoothly to constructive, ecologically 
beneficial peacetime activities, including strict 
control of all fissile material and radioactive 
waste, during the period in which nuclear weap-
ons must be dismantled and eliminated pursu-
ant to the treaty or other international agree-
ment described in paragraph (1); and 
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(B) in addressing human and infrastruc-
ture needs, including development and deploy-
ment of sustainable carbon-free and nuclear- 
free energy sources, health care, housing, edu-
cation, agriculture, and environmental restora-
tion, including long-term radioactive waste mon-
itoring; 
(3) undertake vigorous, good-faith efforts to 
eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military oper-
ations; and 
(4) actively promote policies to induce all other 
countries to join in the commitments described in 
this subsection to create a more peaceful and secure 
world. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a)(2) shall take 
effect on the date on which the President certifies to Con-
gress that all countries possessing nuclear weapons have— 
(1) eliminated such weapons; or 
(2) begun such elimination under established 
legal requirements comparable to those described in 
subsection (a). 
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