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 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT. 23, 1992 106 STAT. 2567 (2) To assist the establishment of a market economy in the independent states of the former Soviet Union by promoting, identifying, and peirtially funding joint research, development, and demonstration ventures between United States businesses and scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs in those independent states. (3) To provide a mechanism for scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs in the independent states of the former Soviet Union to develop an understanding of commercial business practices by establishing linkages to United States scientists, engineers, and businesses. (4) To provide access for United States businesses to sophisticated new technologies, talented researchers, and potential new markets within the independent states of the former Soviet Union. (5) To provide productive research and development opportunities within the independent states of the former Soviet Union that offer scientists and engineers alternatives to emigration and help prevent proliferation of weapons technologies and the dissolution of the technological infrastructure of those states. TITLE XV—NONPROLIFERATION SEC. 1501. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992". SEC. 1S02. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the proliferation (A) of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (hereinafter in this title referred to as '^weapons of mass destruction") and related technology and knowledge and (B) of missile delivery systems remains one of the most serious threats to international peace and the national security of the United States in the post-cold war era; (2) the proliferation of nuclear weapons, given the extraordinary lethality of those weapons, is of particularly serious concern; (3) the nonproliferation policv of the United States shoidd continue to seek to limit both the supply of and demand for weapons of mass destruction and to reduce the existing threat from proliferation of such weapons; (4) substantial funding of nonproliferation activities by the United States is essential to controlling the proliferation of all weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems; (5) the President's nonproliferation policy statement of June 1992, and his September 10, 1992, initiative to increase funding for nonproliferation activities in the Department of Energy are praiseworthy; (6) the Congress is committed to cooperating with the President in carrying out an effective policy designed to control the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; (7) the President should identify a full range of appropriate, high priority nonproliferation activities that can be undertaken by the United States and should include requests for full fund- Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992.

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