“A resolution urging the United States to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race.”
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This section expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should (1) actively pursue a world free of nuclear weapons as a national security imperative; and (2) lead a global effort to halt and reverse a nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war by (A) engaging in good-faith negotiations with the other eight nuclear-armed countries, Russia, and China to halt nuclear buildups, reduce and eliminate arsenals, and pursue arms control; (B) leading efforts for all nuclear-armed countries to renounce first use of nuclear weapons; (C) implementing checks and balances on the President's sole authority to order U.S. nuclear weapons use; (D) ending the Cold War-era hair-trigger alert posture of U.S. nuclear forces; (E) ending plans to produce and deploy new nuclear warheads and delivery systems; (F) maintaining the global moratorium on nuclear explosive testing; (G) remediating environmental contamination from nuclear weapons activities and providing health monitoring, compensation, and medical care through an expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA; P.L. 101-426) (i.e., program compensating individuals exposed to radiation from nuclear testing and uranium production); and (H) planning a just economic transition for nuclear weapons workers and dependent communities.