United States · Bill · S
S. 1186 (118th)
Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023
Introduced
18 April 2023
Last action
—
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
5 December 2025
Summary
Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2023 This bill prohibits the use of 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 that did not first launch a nuclear strike against the United States, its territories, or its allies.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 18 April 2023
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 18 April 2023
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 18 April 2023
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1186
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/s/1186