Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§5851 Findings

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 67— - FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA AND EMERGING EURASIAN DEMOCRACIES AND OPEN MARKETS SUPPORT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES › § 5851

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States must prioritize cutting military threats from countries formed after the Soviet Union broke up. It must help secure, transport, store, and destroy nuclear and other weapons; prevent their spread and set up checks to verify that; stop weapons experts from going to terrorists or other states; help convert defense factories to civilian uses; and expand military-to-military ties with those countries.

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Title 22, §5851

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The Congress finds that it is in the national security interest of the United States—

(1)to facilitate, on a priority basis—

(A)the transportation, storage, safeguarding, and destruction of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction of the independent states of the former Soviet Union;

(B)the prevention of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and destabilizing conventional weapons of the independent states, and the establishment of verifiable safeguards against the proliferation of such weapons;

(C)the prevention of diversion of weapons-related scientific expertise of the former Soviet Union to terrorist groups or third countries; and

(D)other efforts designed to reduce the military threat from the former Soviet Union;

(2)to support the conversion of the massive defense-related industry and equipment of the independent states of the former Soviet Union for civilian purposes and uses; and

(3)to expand military-to-military contacts between the United States and the independent states.

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22 U.S.C. § 5851

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73