1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No START Treaty Act . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The United States and the Russian Federation signed the New START Treaty in April 2010, and the treaty entered into force in February 2011. (2) The central limits of the New START Treaty prohibit the United States and the Russian Federation from possessing any more than 700 deployed strategic nuclear launchers, 800 deployed and non-deployed strategic nuclear launchers, and 1,550 nuclear warheads attributed to those deployed launchers. (3) The New START Treaty includes an inspection and verification regime that includes 18 on-site inspections per year, data exchanges and notifications, and a Bilateral Consultative Commission as a compliance and implementation convening body. (4) The New START Treaty allows each party the right to withdraw if it decides that extraordinary events related to the subject matter of the treaty jeopardize its supreme interests. (5) The New START Treaty placed no constraints on Russia’s estimated 2,000 non-strategic nuclear weapons, which can be delivered by a variety of ground-based, air-based, and sea-based platforms. In contrast, the United States possesses only a small inventory of aircraft-deliverable non-strategic nuclear gravity bombs. (6) The New START Treaty did not constrain the arsenal of the People’s Republic of China, which is now engaged in a strategic breakout of its nuclear forces. The Department of Defense estimates that China will have about 1,000 operational nuclear warheads by 2030 and about 1,500 warheads by 2035 if it continues at its current pace. (7) The Department of Defense acknowledged in its 2022 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China that China took only two years to double its nuclear arsenal, far sooner than the Department’s 2020 estimate that it would take China until 2030 to double its nuclear arsenal. (8) Even when the Russian Federation was found compliant with the New START Treaty, it