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H.Con.Res. 73 (100th)

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should enter into a joint high-level scientific study with the Soviet Union to determine the long-term climatic and environmental effects of a nuclear exchange.

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11 March 1987

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Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States and the Soviet Union should enter into a joint high-level scientific study to determine the long-term climatic and environmental effects of a nuclear exchange. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in order to develop data for such study, to prepare an analysis of the consequences of a nuclear explosion on the environment. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the climatic and environmental effects of a nuclear exchange should be included in any analysis of the consequences of nuclear war and should also be considered in the nuclear weapons, arms control, and civil defense policies of both nations.

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