PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The President must set up a working group to study how to verify a strategic arms reduction treaty and other arms control deals. The group must also review whether the verification rules from the U.S.–U.S.S.R. treaty on eliminating intermediate‑range and shorter‑range missiles (signed December 8, 1987) are relevant. The Agency must give enough resources to build and keep a detailed database about verification ideas, research, technology, and systems. The Agency must gather, analyze, and share information on verifying and monitoring arms-control agreements, including all current U.S. bilateral and multilateral treaties and proposed, prospective, or potential treaties covering nuclear, conventional, chemical, and space weapons. The Agency must support related research to improve verification and report these activities in its annual report to Congress.

Title 22, §2577a

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(a)Establishment of working group

The President should establish a working group—

(1)to examine verification approaches to a strategic arms reduction agreement and other arms control agreements; and

(2)to assess the relevance for such agreements of the verification provisions of the Treaty Between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (signed at Washington, December 8, 1987).

(b)Information and data base

(1)The Agency shall allocate sufficient resources to develop and maintain a comprehensive information and data base on verification concepts, research, technologies, and systems. The Agency shall collect, maintain, analyze, and disseminate information pertaining to arms control verification and monitoring, including information regarding—

(A)all current United States bilateral and multilateral arms treaties; and

(B)proposed, prospective, and potential bilateral or multilateral arms treaties in the areas of nuclear, conventional, chemical, and space weapons.

(2)The Agency shall seek to improve United States verification and monitoring activities through the monitoring and support of relevant research and analysis.

(3)The Agency shall provide detailed information on the activities pursuant to this section in its annual report to the Congress.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Arms Control and Disarmament

Amendments

Act of 1989, and not as part of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

“Agency”, referred to in subsec. (b), meaning the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of State, see section 6511 and 6512 of this title.

§2577a Arms Control Verification