A joint resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the United States should promote the goal of strategic stability and reduce the risk of nuclear war through a balanced program of force modernization together with negotiations to achieve substantial, verifiable and militarily significant reductions to equal levels in the nuclear arsenals of both superpowers.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Declares that the United States should: (1) pursue a program of strategic nuclear-force modernization; (2) seek to preserve balanced force capabilities through force modernization and arms-reduction negotiations; (3) continue to pursue negotiated mutual and verifiable reductions in the nuclear arsenals of both superpowers; and (4) agree to arms reductions within the framework of the present START and INF negotiations.…