S.Amdt. 1444

1. Adds SEC. 1088. UNITED STATES COMMITMENTS TO SAFETY, RELIABILITY, AND PERFORMANCE OF UNITED STATES NUCLEAR FORCES AND MODERNIZATION AND REPLACEMENT OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DELIVERY VEHICLES at the end of subtitle H of title X

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   In S. 1867 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   Section 382 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking "biological or chemical" each place it appears in subsections (a) and (b).

   Inserted: SEC. 1088. UNITED STATES COMMITMENTS TO SAFETY, RELIABILITY, AND PERFORMANCE OF UNITED STATES NUCLEAR FORCES AND MODERNIZATION AND REPLACEMENT OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DELIVERY VEHICLES.

   Inserted: (a) Safety, Reliability, and Performance of Nuclear Forces.--

   Inserted: (1) Statement of policy.--The United States is committed to ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of its nuclear forces.

   Inserted: (2) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--

   Inserted: (A) the United States is committed to proceeding with a robust stockpile stewardship program, and to maintaining and modernizing the nuclear weapons production capabilities and capacities, that will ensure the safety, reliability, and performance of the United States nuclear arsenal at the levels set forth in the New START Treaty, and will meet requirements for hedging against possible international developments or technical problems, in conformance with United States policies and to underpin deterrence;

   Inserted: (B) to that end, the United States is committed to maintaining United States nuclear weapons laboratories and preserving the core nuclear weapons competencies therein; and

   Inserted: (C) the United States is committed to providing the resources needed to achieve these objectives, at a minimum at the levels set forth in the President's 10-year plan provided to Congress pursuant to section 1251 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84; 123 Stat. 2549).

   Inserted: (b) Sense of Congress on Modernization and Replacement of United States Strategic Delivery Vehicles.--In accordance with paragraph 1 of Article V of the New START Treaty, which states, "Subject to the provisions of this Treaty, modernization and replacement of strategic offensive arms may be carried out," is the sense of Congress that--

   Inserted: (1) United States deterrence and flexibility is assured by a robust triad of strategic delivery vehicles; and

   Inserted: (2) to this end, the United States is committed to accomplishing the modernization and replacement of its strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, and to ensuring the continued flexibility of United States conventional and nuclear delivery systems.

   Inserted: (c) New START Treaty Defined.--In this section, the term "New START Treaty" means the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed at Prague April 8, 2010, with Protocol, including Annex on Inspection Activities to the Protocol, Annex on Notifications to the Protocol, and Annex on Telemetric Information to the Protocol (Treaty Document 111-5).

   Original wording

   At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

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