SR61

Expresses support for arms control agreements and constraints on Russian and Chinese strategic nuclear forces.

The resolution expresses support for the continued value of arms control agreements and negotiated constraints on Russian and Chinese strategic nuclear forces. It condemns the use of nuclear escalatory rhetoric and veiled threats to potentially use nuclear weapons in the context of the illegal invasion of Ukraine. The resolution emphasizes the importance of the New START Treaty, which limits the Russian nuclear arsenal, and calls for immediate cessation of nuclear saber rattling and nuclear escalatory rhetoric from Russia and other nuclear-armed states.