{"identifier":"/us/usc/t22/s5851","title":22,"num":"\u00a7\u202f5851.","heading":"Findings","text":"\u00a7\u202f5851.\nFindings\nThe Congress finds that it is in the national security interest of the United States\u2014\n(1) to facilitate, on a priority basis\u2014\n(A) the transportation, storage, safeguarding, and destruction of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction of the independent states of the former Soviet Union;\n(B) the prevention of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and destabilizing conventional weapons of the independent states, and the establishment of verifiable safeguards against the proliferation of such weapons;\n(C) the prevention of diversion of weapons-related scientific expertise of the former Soviet Union to terrorist groups or third countries; and\n(D) other efforts designed to reduce the military threat from the former Soviet Union;\n(2) to support the conversion of the massive defense-related industry and equipment of the independent states of the former Soviet Union for civilian purposes and uses; and\n(3) to expand military-to-military contacts between the United States and the independent states.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t22/s5851.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f5851."},{"t":"heading","text":"Findings","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"The Congress finds that it is in the national security interest of the United States\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" to facilitate, on a priority basis\u2014"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851/1/A","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(A)"},{"t":"content","text":" the transportation, storage, safeguarding, and destruction of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction of the independent states of the former Soviet Union;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851/1/B","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(B)"},{"t":"content","text":" the prevention of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and destabilizing conventional weapons of the independent states, and the establishment of verifiable safeguards against the proliferation of such weapons;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851/1/C","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(C)"},{"t":"content","text":" the prevention of diversion of weapons-related scientific expertise of the former Soviet Union to terrorist groups or third countries; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851/1/D","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(D)"},{"t":"content","text":" other efforts designed to reduce the military threat from the former Soviet Union;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" to support the conversion of the massive defense-related industry and equipment of the independent states of the former Soviet Union for civilian purposes and uses; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5851/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" to expand military-to-military contacts between the United States and the independent states.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}