---
kind: "title"
title: "50"
heading: "War and National Defense"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50"
sections_count: 1360
---

# Title 50 — War and National Defense

## Contents

- [Chapter 1 — Council of National Defense](/usc/50/ch1.md)
- [Chapter 2 — Board of Ordnance and Fortification](/usc/50/ch2.md)
- [Chapter 3 — Alien Enemies](/usc/50/ch3.md)
- [Chapter 4 — Espionage](/usc/50/ch4.md)
- [Chapter 4A — Photographing, Sketching, Mapping, Etc., Defensive Installations](/usc/50/ch4A.md)
- [Chapter 4B — Disclosure of Classified Information](/usc/50/ch4B.md)
- [Chapter 4C — Atomic Weapons and Special Nuclear Materials Information Rewards](/usc/50/ch4C.md)
- [Chapter 5 — Arsenals, Armories, Arms, and War Material Generally](/usc/50/ch5.md)
- [Chapter 6 — Willful Destruction, Etc., of War or National-Defense Material](/usc/50/ch6.md)
- [Chapter 7 — Interference with Homing Pigeons Owned by United States](/usc/50/ch7.md)
- [Chapter 8 — Explosives; Manufacture, Distribution, Storage, Use, and Possession Regulated](/usc/50/ch8.md)
- [Chapter 9 — Aircraft](/usc/50/ch9.md)
- [Chapter 10 — Helium Gas](/usc/50/ch10.md)
- [Chapter 11 — Acquisition of and Expenditures on Land for National-Defense Purposes](/usc/50/ch11.md)
- [Chapter 12 — Vessels in Territorial Waters of United States](/usc/50/ch12.md)
- [Chapter 13 — Insurrection](/usc/50/ch13.md)
- [Chapter 14 — Wartime Voting by Land and Naval Forces](/usc/50/ch14.md)
- [Chapter 15 — National Security](/usc/50/ch15.md)
- [Chapter 16 — Defense Industrial Reserves](/usc/50/ch16.md)
- [Chapter 17 — Arming American Vessels](/usc/50/ch17.md)
- [Chapter 18 — Air-Warning Screen](/usc/50/ch18.md)
- [Chapter 19 — Guided Missiles](/usc/50/ch19.md)
- [Chapter 20 — Wind Tunnels](/usc/50/ch20.md)
- [Chapter 21 — Abacá Production](/usc/50/ch21.md)
- [Chapter 22 — Uniform Code of Military Justice](/usc/50/ch22.md)
- [Chapter 22A — Representation of Armed Forces Personnel Before Foreign Judicial Tribunals](/usc/50/ch22A.md)
- [Chapter 23 — Internal Security](/usc/50/ch23.md)
- [Chapter 24 — National Defense Facilities](/usc/50/ch24.md)
- [Chapter 25 — Armed Forces Reserve](/usc/50/ch25.md)
- [Chapter 26 — Gifts for Defense Purposes](/usc/50/ch26.md)
- [Chapter 27 — Reserve Officer Personnel Program](/usc/50/ch27.md)
- [Chapter 28 — Status of Armed Forces Personnel Appointed to Service Academies](/usc/50/ch28.md)
- [Chapter 29 — National Defense Contracts](/usc/50/ch29.md)
- [Chapter 30 — Federal Absentee Voting Assistance](/usc/50/ch30.md)
- [Chapter 31 — Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations](/usc/50/ch31.md)
- [Chapter 32 — Chemical and Biological Warfare Program](/usc/50/ch32.md)
- [Chapter 33 — War Powers Resolution](/usc/50/ch33.md)
- [Chapter 34 — National Emergencies](/usc/50/ch34.md)
- [Chapter 35 — International Emergency Economic Powers](/usc/50/ch35.md)
- [Chapter 36 — Foreign Intelligence Surveillance](/usc/50/ch36.md)
- [Chapter 37 — National Security Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants](/usc/50/ch37.md)
- [Chapter 38 — Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability](/usc/50/ch38.md)
- [Chapter 39 — Spoils of War](/usc/50/ch39.md)
- [Chapter 40 — Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction](/usc/50/ch40.md)
- [Chapter 41 — National Nuclear Security Administration](/usc/50/ch41.md)
- [Chapter 42 — Atomic Energy Defense Provisions](/usc/50/ch42.md)
- [Chapter 43 — Preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism](/usc/50/ch43.md)
- [Chapter 44 — National Security](/usc/50/ch44.md)
- [Chapter 45 — Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities](/usc/50/ch45.md)
- [Chapter 46 — Central Intelligence Agency](/usc/50/ch46.md)
- [Chapter 47 — National Security Agency](/usc/50/ch47.md)
- [Chapter 48 — Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction](/usc/50/ch48.md)
- [Chapter 49 — Military Selective Service](/usc/50/ch49.md)
- [Chapter 50 — Servicemembers Civil Relief](/usc/50/ch50.md)
- [Chapter 51 — War Claims](/usc/50/ch51.md)
- [Chapter 52 — Restitution for World War Ii Internment of Japanese-Americans and Aleuts](/usc/50/ch52.md)
- [Chapter 53 — Trading with the Enemy](/usc/50/ch53.md)
- [Chapter 54 — Merchant Ship Sales](/usc/50/ch54.md)
- [Chapter 55 — Defense Production](/usc/50/ch55.md)
- [Chapter 56 — Export Administration](/usc/50/ch56.md)
- [Chapter 57 — Claims under the Clarification Act](/usc/50/ch57.md)
- [Chapter 58 — Export Control Reform](/usc/50/ch58.md)