Reaffirming the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States must lead the world in preventing further nuclear proliferation, while also reducing and eventually eliminating all nuclear weapons.

reaffirms that effective arms control treaties, and other confidence-building and verification agreements, that successfully limit and reduce nuclear weapons and curb nuclear competition are important tools that strengthen the security of the United States and international security;

strongly supports a sustained and intensive dialogue with Russia and China to reduce the threats posed by nuclear weapons, and underscores that effective arms control has always been an area of crucial and necessary dialogue, even during the lowest points in bilateral and multilateral relations;

recognizes that the United States and Russia, which possess more than 90 percent of the world’s 13,000 nuclear weapons, have a special responsibility to reduce the nuclear danger, and are committed to do so under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;

calls on the President to extend the New START Treaty for five years without further delay to give the United States, in consultation with allies, the time and space needed to pursue a broader, more comprehensive arms control agenda with Russia and China that addresses all types of nuclear weapons and emerging technologies that can affect strategic stability; and

calls on the current administration to immediately withdraw its declared intent to leave the Treaty on Open Skies, which allies, partners, and arms control experts all agree is a vital instrument of confidence-building and verification for the United States and its objectives for promoting international security and strategic stability.