Resolves that it is the sense of the Senate that the President, the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and their advisors should give the highest priority to concerted efforts to achieve treaties and agreements.

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Makes it the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and their advisors should give the highest priority to concerted efforts to achieve treaties and agreements which will halt the nuclear arms race through reductions of existing weapons stocks on a mutually agreed upon basis of overall equality; and take such additional steps as might be necessary to lessen the probability of nuclear holocaust; (2) concerted efforts should be made to achieve restraint on the part of both the Soviet Union and the United States during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks now in progress with regard to further expenditures for research, development, testing, and development of all nuclear weapons systems; (3) inequalities that may not exist in the respective nuclear weapons systems of both the United States and the Soviet Union should be eliminated through mutually agreed upon reductions of existing nuclear weapons systems; (4) a mutually agreed upon equality of the deterrent forces of the two countries will necessarily involve an overall balance in their respective forces taking into account the elements listed in this resolution. Makes it the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States and the Secretary of State should, and are hereby urged and requested, to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward further arms limitations and reductions within the context of an assured deterrent which is the basis of our national security. Directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit copies of this resolution to the President and the Secretary of State.

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