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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. RES. 317
5	5	Urging the United States to lead the world back from the brink of nuclear
6	6	war and halt and reverse the nuclear arms race.
7	7	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8	8	APRIL9, 2025
9	9	Mr. M
10	10	CGOVERN(for himself, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. LIEU, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms.
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12	12	ELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. LOF-
13	13	GREN, Ms. NORTON, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms.
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15	15	MAR, and Mr. CASAR) submitted the following resolution; which was re-
16	16	ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Com-
17	17	mittee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by
18	18	the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
19	19	in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
20	20	RESOLUTION
21	21	Urging the United States to lead the world back from the
22	22	brink of nuclear war and halt and reverse the nuclear
23	23	arms race.
24	24	Whereas, since the height of the Cold War, the United States
25	25	and Russia have dismantled more than 50,000 nuclear
26	26	warheads, but some 12,000 nuclear weapons still exist
27	27	and pose an intolerable risk to human survival;
28	28	Whereas the United States and Russia, which possess an esti-
29	29	mated 95 percent of these weapons, have a special re-
30	30	sponsibility to meet their obligations under Article VI of
31	31	the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to ‘‘pursue
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34	34	•HRES 317 IH
35	35	negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating
36	36	to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date
37	37	and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general
38	38	and complete disarmament under strict and effective
39	39	international control’’;
40	40	Whereas President Ronald Reagan said in his January 1984
41	41	State of the Union Address that ‘‘A nuclear war cannot
42	42	be won and must never be fought. The only value in our
43	43	two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure
44	44	they will never be used. But then would it not be better
45	45	to do away with them entirely?’’;
46	46	Whereas, according to scientific studies and models, the use
47	47	of even a tiny fraction of these weapons could cause
48	48	worldwide climate disruption and global famine by lofting
49	49	millions of tons of soot into the upper atmosphere, which
50	50	would cause climate disruption across the planet, cutting
51	51	food production and putting hundreds of millions of peo-
52	52	ple worldwide at risk of death due to famine;
53	53	Whereas, according to numerous scientific studies and mod-
54	54	els, a large-scale nuclear war would kill hundreds of mil-
55	55	lions of people directly and cause unimaginable physical
56	56	destruction and environmental damage, including even
57	57	more severe catastrophic climate disruption due to lower
58	58	temperatures across the planet not seen since the last ice
59	59	age;
60	60	Whereas, during the course of the nuclear age, there have
61	61	been technical miscalculations, misinterpretations of ad-
62	62	versary behavior, and crises that have led to numerous
63	63	nuclear near-misses that could have led to nuclear war;
64	64	Whereas the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Rus-
65	65	sian Federation and the Kremlin’s repeated explicit
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68	68	•HRES 317 IH
69	69	threats to use nuclear weapons have significantly in-
70	70	creased the risk of nuclear weapons use;
71	71	Whereas tensions elsewhere in the world, including between
72	72	the United States and China over Taiwan and the South
73	73	China Sea, ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan,
74	74	and the chronic security crisis on the Korean Peninsula,
75	75	constitute other possible flashpoints for nuclear war;
76	76	Whereas, on October 6, 2022, President Biden said, ‘‘I don’t
77	77	think there’s any such thing as an ability to easily use
78	78	a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armaged-
79	79	don.’’;
80	80	Whereas the United States retains a Cold War-era nuclear
81	81	declaratory policy that allows for the first use of nuclear
82	82	weapons against nonnuclear threats under ‘‘extreme’’ cir-
83	83	cumstances and retains a launch-under-attack posture
84	84	that unnecessarily compresses Presidential decision time
85	85	to launch nuclear weapons within minutes, thereby cre-
86	86	ating conditions that increase the risk of unintentional or
87	87	accidental nuclear war;
88	88	Whereas, in 2023, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
89	89	estimated that current plans to modernize, upgrade, and
90	90	maintain United States nuclear forces, as described in
91	91	the fiscal year 2023 budget and supporting documents,
92	92	would cost $756,000,000,000 over the 2023–2032 period,
93	93	which was $122,000,000,000 more than CBO’s 2021 es-
94	94	timate for the 2021–2030 period;
95	95	Whereas, in October 2017, CBO estimated that the Nuclear
96	96	Modernization Plan to upgrade and enhance nearly every
97	97	element of the nuclear arsenal of the United States would
98	98	result in costs of more than $1,200,000,000,000 over the
99	99	following 30 years, not adjusting for inflation;
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102	102	•HRES 317 IH
103	103	Whereas Republican and Democratic administrations have
104	104	negotiated multiple agreements with the Russian Federa-
105	105	tion that have reduced their total nuclear stockpiles by
106	106	more than 80 percent since their Cold War peaks, but in
107	107	recent years have withdrawn from other global treaties
108	108	and agreements that have provided global stability and
109	109	helped prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, in-
110	110	cluding the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty;
111	111	Whereas the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review states that
112	112	‘‘[m]utual, verifiable nuclear arms control offers the most
113	113	effective, durable, and responsible path to reduce the role
114	114	of nuclear weapons in our strategy and prevent their
115	115	use’’;
116	116	Whereas the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty,
117	117	which is the last remaining treaty limiting the size of
118	118	United States and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals,
119	119	will expire on February 5, 2026, and in the absence of
120	120	agreed following constraints, each side could significantly
121	121	increase the number of deployed warheads, thereby accel-
122	122	erating an unconstrained, costly, and dangerous global
123	123	nuclear arms race;
124	124	Whereas, on July 7, 2017, 122 nations voted to adopt the
125	125	Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which
126	126	prohibits the possession, use, testing, stationing, or trans-
127	127	fer of nuclear weapons and creates an important legal
128	128	framework for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and
129	129	entered into force on January 22, 2021; and
130	130	Whereas the United States suspended nuclear explosive test-
131	131	ing in 1992, successfully led the negotiation of the 1996
132	132	Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has been
133	133	signed by 187 countries including the United States and
134	134	the other P–5 nuclear powers, and has effectively put an
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137	137	•HRES 317 IH
138	138	end to nuclear test explosions, which can be used by
139	139	newer nuclear powers with the means to prove new war-
140	140	head designs: Now, therefore, be it
141	141	Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls on 1
142	142	the President to— 2
143	143	(1) actively pursue a world free of nuclear 3
144	144	weapons as a national security imperative; and 4
145	145	(2) lead a global effort to move the world back 5
146	146	from the nuclear brink, halt and reverse a global nu-6
147	147	clear arms race, and prevent nuclear war by— 7
148	148	(A) engaging in good faith negotiations 8
149	149	with the other 8 nuclear armed states to halt 9
150	150	any further buildup of nuclear arsenals and to 10
151	151	aggressively pursue a verifiable and irreversible 11
152	152	agreement or agreements to verifiably reduce 12
153	153	and eliminate their nuclear arsenals according 13
154	154	to negotiated timetables, and, in particular, 14
155	155	pursuing and concluding new nuclear arms con-15
156	156	trol and disarmament arrangements with the 16
157	157	Russian Federation to prevent a buildup of nu-17
158	158	clear forces beyond current levels, and engaging 18
159	159	with China on mutual nuclear risk reduction 19
160	160	and arms control measures; 20
161	161	(B) leading the effort to have all nuclear- 21
162	162	armed states renounce the option of using nu-22
163	163	clear weapons first; 23
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166	166	•HRES 317 IH
167	167	(C) implementing effective checks and bal-1
168	168	ances on the Commander in Chief’s sole author-2
169	169	ity to order the use of United States nuclear 3
170	170	weapons; 4
171	171	(D) ending the Cold War-era ‘‘hair-trigger 5
172	172	alert’’ posture, which increases the risk of cata-6
173	173	strophic miscalculation in a crisis; 7
174	174	(E) ending plans to produce and deploy 8
175	175	new nuclear warheads and delivery systems, 9
176	176	which would reduce the burden on United 10
177	177	States taxpayers; 11
178	178	(F) maintaining the de facto global mora-12
179	179	torium on nuclear explosive testing; 13
180	180	(G) protecting communities and workers 14
181	181	affected by nuclear weapons by fully remedi-15
182	182	ating the deadly legacy of environmental con-16
183	183	tamination from past and current nuclear weap-17
184	184	ons testing, development, production, storage, 18
185	185	and maintenance activities, and by providing 19
186	186	health monitoring, compensation, and medical 20
187	187	care to those who have and will be harmed by 21
188	188	nuclear weapons research, testing, and produc-22
189	189	tion, including through an expanded Radiation 23
190	190	Exposure Compensation Act program; and 24
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193	193	•HRES 317 IH
194	194	(H) actively planning a just economic tran-1
195	195	sition for the civilian and military workforce in-2
196	196	volved in the development, testing, production, 3
197	197	management, and dismantlement of nuclear 4
198	198	weapons and for the communities that are eco-5
199	199	nomically dependent on nuclear weapons labora-6
200	200	tories, production facilities, and military bases. 7
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