IV
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 137
To enhance United States efforts to stem the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 6, 1993
Mr. BERMAN submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To enhance United States efforts to stem the proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction.
Whereas the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is
among the most grave national security challenges the
United States faces;
Whereas President Clinton has stated that preventing the
spread of such weapons will be a chief priority of United
States foreign and national security policy;
Whereas, as part of that policy, the United States will seek
the indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non-Pro-
liferation of Nuclear Weapons, an issue to be decided in
1995 by a conference of the parties to the Treaty;
Whereas the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear test ban
treaty, long considered a key milestone in global efforts
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to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, will greatly assist
the United States in achieving the indefinite extension of
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;
Whereas the United States committed itself in the Treaty
Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in
Outer Space and Under Water (done at Moscow, August
1963) to seek ‘‘to achieve the discontinuance of all test
explosions of nuclear weapons for all time, determined to
continue negotiations to this end’’;
Whereas in 1992 Congress enacted legislation requiring a nu-
clear testing moratorium until July 1, 1993, and an end
to all testing by September 1996;
Whereas President Clinton announced on July 30, 1993, that
the United States will continue the moratorium for at
least 15 more months unless another country resumes
testing, and will pursue multilateral negotiations on a
comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty;
Whereas, prior to this announcement, the House of Rep-
resentatives had passed legislation that would appropriate
$120,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 to conduct nuclear
tests;
Whereas the program of safeguards on the peaceful uses of
nuclear energy administered by the International Atomic
Energy Agency serves as the frontline in preventing the
diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes;
Whereas the safeguard responsibilities of the International
Atomic Energy Agency have grown sharply in recent
years as a result of the increase in the number of parties
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weap-
ons, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the non-
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proliferation undertakings of Argentina, Brazil, and
South Africa;
Whereas for a decade the United States has paid its assessed
contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency
at the end of the calendar year in which it is due, com-
plicating the International Atomic Energy Agency’s abil-
ity to fulfill its obligations;
Whereas, as a result of the fall of totalitarian regimes in
Eastern Europe and the breakup of the Soviet Union,
successor governments have lacked adequate export con-
trols over the possible outflow of dual use technology re-
lated to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction;
Whereas the United States is an original signatory of the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Pro-
duction, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and
on Their Destruction (hereinafter in this resolution re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Chemical Weapons Convention’’) which
bans the possession of chemical weapons; and
Whereas an international preparatory commission has been
established to complete all the work necessary to bring
the Chemical Weapons Convention into force in January
1996: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring),
SECTION 1. ENDING NUCLEAR TESTING.
The Congress—
(1) commends the President for his decision to
continue the moratorium on nuclear testing; and
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(2) encourages the President to begin prepara-
tions expeditiously for multilateral negotiations on a
comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty.
SEC. 2. EXTENDING THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
TREATY.
The Congress strongly shares the view that the Trea-
ty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an es-
sential component of international security and should be
extended indefinitely in 1995.
SEC. 3. REALLOCATING NUCLEAR TESTING FUNDS.
It is the sense of the Congress that amounts that
would have been made available to conduct nuclear tests
during fiscal year 1994 should be reallocated as follows:
(1) $50,000,000 should be made available to
enable the United States to pay its assessed con-
tributions to the International Atomic Energy Agen-
cy earlier in that agency’s fiscal year.
(2) $16,000,000 should be made available for
the United States assessed contribution for the
preparatory commission of the Chemical Weapons
Convention.
(3) $30,000,000 should be made available
through a nonproliferation fund to assist the emerg-
ing democracies in Eastern Europe and the inde-