Sec. 1654. Sense of Congress on indemnification and the conventional prompt global strike weapon system
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It is the sense of Congress that— the conventional prompt global strike weapon system of the Navy, for which the Secretary of the Navy has declined to provide indemnification, will have more than twice the TNT equivalent of the bomb used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that resulted in many casualties and more than $3,300,000,000 in insurance claims in 2021 dollars—an amount that is $1,100,000,000 greater than the insurance limits currently available from private insurance underwriters; the term unusually hazardous used in Executive Order 10789, as amended, pursuant to public Law 85–804 ( 50 U.S.C. 1431 et seq. ) should be objectively and consistently applied to weapons systems and programs whose physical properties inherently possess substantial explosive energy whose misapplication or accidental ignition could result in catastrophic material destruction and human injuries and deaths; an inconsistent and arbitrary application of such Executive Order and law may create significant risk for the industrial base and loss of critical defense capabilities; and the Secretary of the Navy should— take maximum practicable advantage of existing statutory authority to provide indemnification for large rocket programs employing unusually hazardous propulsion systems for both nuclear and non-nuclear strategic systems; and develop a policy for more consistently applying such authority.
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Sec. 1654
Sense of Congress on indemnification and the conventional prompt global strike weapon system
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