Recognizing the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and calling on the President to engage in nonproliferation strategies designed to eliminate these weapons of mass destruction from United States and worldwide arsenals.

Bill: 108-hres-291
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Aggression
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Arms control negotiations
Ballistic missile defenses
Ballistic missiles
Building construction
Conferences
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive relations
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal installations
Government Operations and Politics
International cooperation
Laboratories
Military research
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear research
Nuclear weapons
Plutonium
President and foreign policy
Research and development
Research centers
Russia
Science, Technology, Communications
Space activities
Space warfare
Tactical nuclear weapons
Tritium
United Nations
War
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Requests the President to inform Congress and the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) regarding U.S. efforts and measures taken with respect to implementation and observance of Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and certain UN resolutions calling for U.S. and world nuclear disarmament. Calls on the President to implement and observe all NPT obligations and commitments and to revise national policies on nuclear weapons accordingly.
 
Urges the President, in the interests of protecting and advancing human, national, and global security, to: (1) declare unconditionally that the United States will not use nuclear weapons first, and that pending their elimination, such weapons serve only to deter a nuclear attack by a hostile state or other entity; (2) initiate and conclude multilateral negotiations on verifiable steps nuclear states, including the United States, shall take to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons; (3) cooperate with the Russian Federation to remove from deployment nuclear weapons that are operational; (4) reaffirm the moratorium on nuclear testing and work for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; and (5) terminate all efforts to enhance U.S. military capabilities of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and to develop ballistic missile defenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House