S.Amdt. 885

SA 885. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. SAFING UNITED STATES INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC
MISSILE FLEET.

The Secretary of Defense shall take United States ground-
based intercontinental ballistic missiles off high alert to
eliminate the risk of an accidental or unauthorized launch,
and to prevent an intentional launch, in response to an event
mistakenly interpreted as an incoming attack, by turning a
key in a control switch to isolate the missiles from outside
launch signals (commonly referred to as ``safing'').
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