[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1562 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1562

To require the President to give notice of the intention of the United 
  States to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 6, 1996

   Mr. Helms introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the President to give notice of the intention of the United 
  States to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Strategic Anti-Missile 
Revitalization and Security Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The Constitution vests in the Government of the United 
        States responsibility to provide for the common defense and 
        promote the general welfare of the American people.
            (2) Due to limitations imposed by the Anti-Ballistic 
        Missile Treaty, the United States is prohibited from deploying 
        a national missile defense capable of defending America against 
        even the most limited of ballistic missile attack.
            (3) The concept of mutual assured destruction which 
        underlies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is technologically 
        and geostrategically outdated and cannot serve as a basis for 
        stability in a multipolar world characterized by rampant 
        proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic 
        missile technology.
            (4) The possibility of ballistic missile attack upon the 
        United States by a rogue country constitutes a clear, present, 
        and growing threat to the supreme interests of the United 
        States.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT TO GIVE NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL.

    No later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the President shall give notice to the Russian Federation of the 
intention of the United States to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic 
Missile Treaty, as permitted under article XV of that treaty.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITIONS.

    Beginning 210 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
appropriated funds shall not be obligated or expended for the purpose 
of proscribing, enforcing, or implementing any provision of the Anti-
Ballistic Missile Treaty.

SEC. 5. ACTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT.

    On the date that is 180 days after the date of the notification of 
the President to the Russian Federation under section 3, the President 
shall certify to Congress that the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is no 
longer interpreted to apply to the development, deployment, or 
operation of any missile defense system or air defense system of the 
United States, including any component of such a system or upgrade of 
such a system or component.

SEC. 6. DEFINITION.

    As used in this Act, the term ``Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty'' 
means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile 
Systems, signed at Moscow on May 26, 1972, with related protocol, 
signed at Moscow on July 3, 1974.
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