§ 2593a.
(a)
In general
Not later than April 15 of each year, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report prepared by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Director of Central Intelligence and in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the status of United States policy and actions with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. Such report shall include—
(1)
a detailed statement concerning the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament objectives of the executive branch of Government for the forthcoming year;
(2)
a detailed assessment of the status of any ongoing arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament negotiations, including a comprehensive description of negotiations or other activities during the preceding year and an appraisal of the status and prospects for the forthcoming year;
(3)
a detailed assessment of adherence of the United States to obligations undertaken in arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements, including information on the policies and organization of each relevant agency or department of the United States to ensure adherence to such obligations, a description of national security programs with a direct bearing on questions of adherence to such obligations and of steps being taken to ensure adherence, and a compilation of any substantive questions raised during the preceding year and any corrective action taken;
(4)
a detailed assessment of the adherence of other nations to obligations undertaken in all arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements or commitments, including the Missile Technology Control Regime, to which the United States is a participating state, including information on actions taken by each nation with regard to the size, structure, and disposition of its military forces in order to comply with arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament agreements or commitments, and shall include, in the case of each agreement or commitment about which compliance questions exist—
(A)
a description of each significant issue raised and efforts made and contemplated with the other participating state to seek resolution of the difficulty;
(B)
an assessment of damage, if any, to the United States security and other interests; and
(C)
recommendations as to any steps that should be considered to redress any damage to United States national security and to reduce compliance problems;
(5)
a discussion of any material noncompliance by foreign governments with their binding commitments to the United States with respect to the prevention of the spread of nuclear explosive devices (as defined in
section 6305(4) of this title) by non-nuclear-weapon states (as defined in
section 6305(5) of this title) or the acquisition by such states of unsafeguarded special nuclear material (as defined in
section 6305(8) of this title), including—
(A)
a net assessment of the aggregate military significance of all such violations;
(B)
a statement of the compliance policy of the United States with respect to violations of those commitments; and
(C)
what actions, if any, the President has taken or proposes to take to bring any nation committing such a violation into compliance with those commitments; and
(6)
a specific identification, to the maximum extent practicable in unclassified form, of each and every question that exists with respect to compliance by other countries with arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements with the United States.
(f)
Appropriate congressional committees defined
In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
(1)
the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(2)
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
([Pub. L. 87–297, title IV, § 403], formerly § 51, as added and amended [Pub. L. 103–236, title VII, § 717(a)(3)], title VIII, § 828(a), Apr. 30, 1994, [108 Stat. 498], 520; renumbered § 403 and amended, [Pub. L. 105–277, div. G], subdiv. A, title XII, § 1223(15), (21), Oct. 21, 1998, [112 Stat. 2681–771], 2681–772; [Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. B, title XI, § 1113]], Nov. 29, 1999, [113 Stat. 1536], 1501A–487; [Pub. L. 107–228, div. B, title XI, § 1103], Sept. 30, 2002, [116 Stat. 1426]; [Pub. L. 113–66, div. A, title XII, § 1247], Dec. 26, 2013, [127 Stat. 924]; [Pub. L. 114–92, div. A, title XII, § 1272], Nov. 25, 2015, [129 Stat. 1076].)