Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§3243 Negotiations

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 47— - NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - UNITED STATES INITIATIVES TO STRENGTHEN THE INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARDS SYSTEM › § 3243

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States must try to make agreements with other countries to do two things. First, agree on shared rules and penalties if a country breaks key rules about peaceful nuclear materials, equipment, or technology — including if a country without nuclear weapons sets off a nuclear explosive device. Second, create international steps to deal with theft, diversion, or sabotage of nuclear materials or facilities and to recover lost or stolen nuclear material.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §3243

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The United States shall seek to negotiate with other nations and groups of nations to—

(1)adopt general principles and procedures, including common international sanctions, to be followed in the event that a nation violates any material obligation with respect to the peaceful use of nuclear materials and equipment or nuclear technology, or in the event that any nation violates the principles of the Treaty, including the detonation by a non-nuclear-weapon state of a nuclear explosive device; and

(2)establish international procedures to be followed in the event of diversion, theft, or sabotage of nuclear materials or sabotage of nuclear facilities, and for recovering nuclear materials that have been lost or stolen, or obtained or used by a nation or by any person or group in contravention of the principles of the Treaty.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and regardless of any requirements for the promulgation of implementing

Regulations

, see section 603(c) of Pub. L. 95–242, set out as a note under section 3201 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 3243

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73