Title 50, War and National DefenseRelease 119-110
§47a Information Concerning Illegal Introduction, Manufacture, Acquisition or Export of Special Nuclear Material or Atomic Weapons or Conspiracies Relating Thereto; Reward
Title 50 › CHAPTER 4C — ATOMIC WEAPONS AND SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS INFORMATION REWARDS › § 47a
Summary
The U.S. can pay up to $500,000 to anyone who gives original information that helps the government catch or take control of special nuclear material or an atomic weapon. The tip must be about illegal acts like bringing, making, getting, exporting, trying to do those things, or plotting to do them.
Full Legal Text
Title 50, §47a
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Any person who furnishes original information to the United States—
(a)leading to the finding or other acquisition by the United States of special nuclear material or an atomic weapon which has been introduced into the United States or manufactured or acquired therein contrary to the laws of the United States, or
(b)with respect to the introduction or attempted introduction into the United States or the manufacture or acquisition or attempted manufacture or acquisition of, or a conspiracy to introduce into the United States or to manufacture or acquire, special nuclear material or an atomic weapon contrary to the laws of the United States, or
(c)with respect to the export or attempted export, or a conspiracy to export, special nuclear material or an atomic weapon from the United States contrary to the laws of the United States,
shall be rewarded by the payment of an amount not to exceed $500,000.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1974—Pub. L. 93–377 in par. (a) made minor changes in phraseology, in par. (b) included information relating to the actual introduction, manufacture and acquisition, or conspiring to introduce into the United States or to manufacture or acquire special nuclear material or an atomic weapon as within the information for which a reward would be given, and added par. (c).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Act July 15, 1955, ch. 372, § 1, 69 Stat. 365, as amended by Pub. L. 93–377, § 1(a), Aug. 17, 1974, 88 Stat. 472, provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Atomic Weapons and Special Nuclear Materials Rewards Act’.”
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Citation
50 U.S.C. § 47a
Title 50, War and National Defense
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110