Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991

Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991

Long title	An Act to amend the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the President to transfer battle tanks, artillery pieces, and armored combat vehicles to member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in conjunction with implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
Nicknames	Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty Implementation Act of 1991
Enacted by	the 102nd United States Congress
Effective	12 December 1991
Citations
Public law	102-228
Statutes at Large	105 Stat. 1691
Codification
Titles amended	22 U.S.C.: Foreign Relations and Intercourse
U.S.C. sections created	22 U.S.C. ch. 39, subch. IX §§ 2799, 2799a, 2799b, 2799c, 2799d
U.S.C. sections amended	22 U.S.C. ch. 35, subch. I § 2551 22 U.S.C. ch. 35, subch. V § 2595 et seq. 22 U.S.C. ch. 39, subch. I § 2751
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 3807 by Dante Fascell (D–FL) on November 19, 1991 Committee consideration by House Foreign Affairs Passed the House on November 19, 1991 (agreed voice vote) Passed the Senate on November 25, 1991 (passed voice vote) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on November 27, 1991 (agreed voice vote) Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on December 12, 1991

Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, 22 U.S.C. § 2551, was chartered to amend the Arms Export Control Act enacting the transfer of Soviet military armaments and ordnances to NATO marking the conclusion of the Cold War. The Act sanctions the Soviet nuclear arsenal displacement shall be in conjunction with the implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. It funds the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program.

The United States legislation was passed by the 102nd Congress and enacted by U.S. President George H. W. Bush on 12 December 1991.^[1]