§8002 Statements of policy

Summary

Requires the United States to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. The U.S. must oppose any non-nuclear state getting the ability to make nuclear weapons. It must push NPT members to use peaceful nuclear rights only in ways that do not help build weapons. The U.S. must follow and strengthen Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) rules on nuclear and dual‑use transfers, require quick coordinated responses to violations (including stopping transfers), tighten controls on enrichment, reprocessing, and heavy‑water technology (including to India), and try to block other governments or sources from supplying nuclear items to countries whose transfers the U.S. has suspended or ended. For South Asia, the U.S. must push for an early moratorium on making fissile material for weapons by India, Pakistan, and China and seek a treaty banning such production that the U.S. and India join. The U.S. must secure India’s full participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative, its agreement to interdiction principles, alignment of its export controls with groups like the Australia Group and the Wassenaar Arrangement, progress on those changes, and ratification or accession to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (done at Vienna on September 12, 1997). The U.S. must also work with India to counter Iran’s WMD efforts, seek to limit and reduce South Asian arsenals, ensure spent fuel from India’s civilian reactors is not sent to the U.S. except under the Congressional review in section 131 f of the Atomic Energy Act, encourage India not to raise fissile production at unsafeguarded sites until a moratorium or treaty exists, ensure IAEA safeguards and any Additional Protocol can protect exports to India, require any cooperation agreement under section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act to meet specific statutory requirements, and keep any fuel reserve for India sized to reasonable reactor needs.