To require a report on nonstrategic nuclear weapons.

SA 2455. Mr. WARNER (for Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Rockefeller)) proposed an amendment to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; as follows:

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SEC. 1205. REPORT ON NONSTRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

(a) Review.--Not later than six months after date of enactment, the Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Secretary of State, conduct a review of United States and Russian nonstrategic nuclear weapons and determine whether it is in the national security interest of the United States--

(1) to reduce the number of United States and Russian nonstrategic nuclear weapons;

(2) to improve the security of United States and Russian nonstrategic nuclear weapons in storage and during transport;

(3) to identify and develop mechanisms and procedures to implement transparent reductions in nonstrategic nuclear weapons; and

(4) to identify and develop mechanisms and procedures to implement the transparent dismantlement of excess nonstrategic nuclear weapons.

(b) Report.--

(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Energy, submit a joint report on the results of the review required under subsection (a). The report shall include a plan to implement, not later than October 1, 2006, actions determined to be in the United States national security interest.

(2) Form.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include an unclassified annex.