SR323 U.S. Senate: Urges the U.S. to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the nuclear arms… (Introduced)

Introduced

Introduced in Senate · July 18, 2025

July 16, 2025

Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Welch, Mr. Sanders, and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

RESOLUTION

Urging the United States to lead a global effort to 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 halt and reverse a global nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war by—
1. (A) engaging in good faith negotiations with—
  1. (i) the other 8 nuclear armed countries to—
    1. (I) halt any further buildup of nuclear arsenals; and
    2. (II) aggressively pursue a verifiable and irreversible agreement or agreements to verifiably reduce and eliminate their nuclear arsenals according to negotiated timetables;
  2. (ii) the Russian Federation to pursue and conclude new nuclear arms control and disarmament arrangements with the Russian Federation to prevent a buildup of nuclear forces beyond current levels; and
  3. (iii) the People’s Republic of China on mutual nuclear risk reduction and arms control measures;
2. (B) leading the effort to have all nuclear-armed countries renounce the option of using nuclear weapons first;
3. (C) implementing effective checks and balances on the sole authority of the President, as Commander-in-Chief, to order the use of United States nuclear weapons;
4. (D) ending the Cold War-era “hair-trigger alert” posture, which increases the risk of catastrophic miscalculation in a crisis;
5. (E) ending plans to produce and deploy new nuclear warheads and delivery systems, which would reduce the burden on taxpayers in the United States;
6. (F) maintaining the de facto global moratorium on nuclear explosive testing;
7. (G) protecting communities and workers affected by nuclear weapons by—
  1. (i) fully remediating the deadly legacy of environmental contamination from past and current nuclear weapons testing, development, production, storage, and maintenance activities; and
  2. (ii) 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 program under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (Public Law 101–426; 42 U.S.C. 2210 note); and
8. (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.