That it is the sense of Congress that—
the United States should continue to encourage all parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to comply fully with the Treaty;
the United States should maintain support for the International Atomic Energy Agency through its assessed and voluntary contributions and promote the universal adoption of the IAEA Additional Protocol;
the United States should—
consider extending the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed at Prague April 8, 2010, and entered into force February 5, 2011 (“New START Treaty”), within the context of wider enhancement of strategic stability between the United States and the Russian Federation, provided that the treaty continues to advance United States national security;
assess whether Russia’s recently-announced nuclear capabilities should be accountable under the New START Treaty and raise the issue directly with Russia;
conclude an interagency process to consider an extension of the New START Treaty and to engage with Russia on the full range of strategic stability issues and other arms control and non-proliferation issues;
begin negotiations with Russia on an agreement to address the massive disparity between the non-strategic nuclear weapons stockpiles of Russia and the United States and to secure and reduce non-strategic nuclear weapons in a verifiable manner; and
consider the consequences of the New START Treaty’s expiration in 2021 in relation to the insights it provides into the location, movement, and disposition of current and future Russian strategic systems;
the United States strongly condemns Russia’s violations of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, signed at Washington December 8, 1987, and entered into force June 1, 1988, and urges it to come back into full compliance prior to August 2, 2019;
in responding to Russia’s deployment of INF-range systems, the United States should advocate for those defense and deterrence steps which preserve the cohesion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and are aimed at averting an arms race on the European continent;
pursuit of a verifiable and comprehensive arms control agreement with Russia and the People’s Republic of China, which may capture strategic and non-strategic nuclear weapons capabilities, would enhance United States and global security by building upon other treaties, agreements, and transparency measures to reduce nuclear risk; and
the United States should continue to encourage opportunities for cooperation with other nuclear weapons-possessing countries to reduce the salience, number, and role of nuclear weapons in their national military strategies.