Sec. 1243. Report on nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation and nuclear modernization of the People's Republic of China
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Not later than February 15, 2020, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that includes the following: An assessment of the deployed nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation not covered by the New START Treaty. An assessment of the nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation in development that would not be covered by the New START Treaty. An assessment of the strategic nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation that are not deployed.
An assessment of the efforts of the People's Republic of China with respect to nuclear modernization. The implications of such assessments with respect to the limitations on strategic weapons of the United States and the Russian Federation under the New START Treaty. The report under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. In this section: The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. The term New START Treaty means the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed on April 8, 2010, and entered into force on February 5, 2011.