Introduced
April 9, 2025
Mr. McGovern (for himself, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Lieu, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Velázquez, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Norton, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Doggett, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Omar, and Mr. Casar) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
RESOLUTION
Urging the United States to lead the world back from the brink of nuclear war and halt and reverse the nuclear arms race.
- (1) actively pursue a world free of nuclear weapons as a national security imperative; and
- (2) lead a global effort to move the world back from the nuclear brink, halt and reverse a global nuclear arms race, and prevent nuclear war by—
- (A) engaging in good faith negotiations with the other 8 nuclear armed states to halt any further buildup of nuclear arsenals and to aggressively pursue a verifiable and irreversible agreement or agreements to verifiably reduce and eliminate their nuclear arsenals according to negotiated timetables, and, in particular, pursuing and concluding new nuclear arms control and disarmament arrangements with the Russian Federation to prevent a buildup of nuclear forces beyond current levels, and engaging with China on mutual nuclear risk reduction and arms control measures;
- (B) leading the effort to have all nuclear-armed states renounce the option of using nuclear weapons first;
- (C) implementing effective checks and balances on the Commander in Chief’s sole authority to order the use of United States nuclear weapons;
- (D) ending the Cold War-era “hair-trigger alert” posture, which increases the risk of catastrophic miscalculation in a crisis;
- (E) ending plans to produce and deploy new nuclear warheads and delivery systems, which would reduce the burden on United States taxpayers;
- (F) maintaining the de facto global moratorium on nuclear explosive testing;
- (G) protecting communities and workers affected by nuclear weapons by fully remediating the deadly legacy of environmental contamination from past and current nuclear weapons testing, development, production, storage, and maintenance activities, and by providing health monitoring, compensation, and medical care to those who have and will be harmed by nuclear weapons research, testing, and production, including through an expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act program; and
- (H) actively planning a just economic transition for the civilian and military workforce involved in the development, testing, production, management, and dismantlement of nuclear weapons and for the communities that are economically dependent on nuclear weapons laboratories, production facilities, and military bases.