Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2025

The Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2025 would direct the United States to sign and eventually ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, contingent on other nuclear-armed nations beginning verifiable and irreversible elimination of their nuclear arsenals. Once the President certifies that all nuclear-armed countries have started dismantling their weapons under the treaty, the bill would require transferring funding from nuclear weapons programs to climate crisis initiatives—such as renewable energy development—and to human and infrastructure needs like healthcare, housing, education, and environmental restoration, including radioactive waste monitoring. The…

AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.