S.Amdt. 886

SA 886. 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 end of subtitle D of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1641. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR RESEARCH OR
TESTING OF LOW-YIELD NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act may be obligated or
expended for research or testing of new nuclear weapons with
explosive capabilities below 10 kilotons or for research or
testing of existing nuclear weapons to be modified to explode
below 10 kilotons.
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