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Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2025
Introduced Jan 22, 2025 by Sen. Edward J. Markey
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Latest action · Jan 22, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
What it does
This bill prohibits using federal funds to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless Congress expressly authorizes such a strike pursuant to a declaration of war. A first-use nuclear strike is an attack using nuclear weapons against an enemy without confirming that there has been a nuclear strike against the United States, its territories, or its allies.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
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