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[CITE: 50USC404a]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
 
Sec. 404a. Annual national security strategy report


(a) Transmittal to Congress

    (1) The President shall transmit to Congress each year a 
comprehensive report on the national security strategy of the United 
States (hereinafter in this section referred to as a ``national security 
strategy report'').
    (2) The national security strategy report for any year shall be 
transmitted on the date on which the President submits to Congress the 
budget for the next fiscal year under section 1105 of title 31.
    (3) Not later than 150 days after the date on which a new President 
takes office, the President shall transmit to Congress a national 
security strategy report under this section. That report shall be in 
addition to the report for that year transmitted at the time specified 
in paragraph (2).

(b) Contents

    Each national security strategy report shall set forth the national 
security strategy of the United States and shall include a comprehensive 
description and discussion of the following:
        (1) The worldwide interests, goals, and objectives of the United 
    States that are vital to the national security of the United States.
        (2) The foreign policy, worldwide commitments, and national 
    defense capabilities of the United States necessary to deter 
    aggression and to implement the national security strategy of the 
    United States.
        (3) The proposed short-term and long-term uses of the political, 
    economic, military, and other elements of the national power of the 
    United States to protect or promote the interests and achieve the 
    goals and objectives referred to in paragraph (1).
        (4) The adequacy of the capabilities of the United States to 
    carry out the national security strategy of the United States, 
    including an evaluation of the balance among the capabilities of all 
    elements of the national power of the United States to support the 
    implementation of the national security strategy.
        (5) Such other information as may be necessary to help inform 
    Congress on matters relating to the national security strategy of 
    the United States.

(c) Classified and unclassified form

    Each national security strategy report shall be transmitted in both 
a classified and an unclassified form.

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, Sec. 108, formerly Sec. 104, as added 
Pub. L. 99-433, title VI, Sec. 603(a)(1), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1074; 
renumbered Sec. 108, Pub. L. 102-496, title VII, Sec. 705(a)(2), Oct. 
24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3190; amended Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title IX, 
Sec. 901(b), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 717.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 106-65 added par. (3).


National Commission on the Future Role of United States Nuclear Weapons, 
Problems of Command, Control, and Safety of Soviet Nuclear Weapons, and 
                      Reduction of Nuclear Weapons

    Pub. L. 102-172, title VIII, Sec. 8132, Nov. 26, 1991, 105 Stat. 
1208, provided for establishment of a National Commission which was to 
submit to Congress, not later than May 1, 1993, a final report 
containing an assessment and recommendations regarding role of, and 
requirements for, nuclear weapons in security strategy of United States 
as result of significant changes in former Warsaw Pact, former Soviet 
Union, and Third World, including possibilities for international 
cooperation with former Soviet Union regarding such problems, and 
safeguards to protect against accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear 
weapons, further directed Commission to obtain study from National 
Academy of Sciences on these matters, further authorized establishment 
of joint working group comprised of experts from governments of United 
States and former Soviet Union which was to meet on regular basis and 
provide recommendations regarding these matters, and further provided 
for composition of Commission as well as powers, procedures, personnel 
matters, appropriations, and termination of Commission upon submission 
of its final report.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 10 sections 113, 117, 118, 
2501.
