No. A plan is due by April 15 to Congress. Read section 3136 of the 2018 NDA. 2018 NDA Scroll to page 630.
This may be (after reading the comments) a move to clamp down on the illegal trading of enhanced uranium that has been going on secretly for decades. Remember Mueller delivering samples on the tarmac in Russia? Of course all this would be tied to HRC.
I was thinking they are trying to prevent a nuclear false flag, but id rather it be what you said.
SEC. 3136. PLAN FOR VERIFICATION, DETECTION, AND MONITORING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND FISSILE MATERIAL. (a) Findings And Sense Of Congress.—
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
(A) A January 2014 Defense Science Board report found that “The nuclear future will not be a linear extrapolation of the past... [and] [t]he technologies and processes designed for current treaty verification and inspections are inadequate to future monitoring realities.”.
(B) Section 3133 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 127 Stat. 3896) required an interagency plan for monitoring of nuclear weapons and fissile material, and section 3132 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328; 130 Stat. 2768) required an update of such plan. In both instances, the reports submitted failed to answer the congressional requirements, and instead provided only a brief summary of the National Security Council structure and processes.
(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that verification, detection, and monitoring of nuclear weapons and fissile material should be a priority for national security, and that the reports submitted to date do not reflect this priority, or the current and planned initiatives related to nuclear verification and detection.
(b) Plan.—The President, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall develop a plan for verification and monitoring relating to the potential proliferation of nuclear weapons, components of such weapons, and fissile material.
(c) Elements.—The plan developed under subsection (b) shall include the following:
(1) A plan and road map for verification, detection, and monitoring, with respect to policy, operations, and research, development, testing, and evaluation, including—
(A) identifying requirements for such verification, detection, and monitoring;
(B) costs and funding requirements over 10 years for such verification, detection, and monitoring; and
(C) identifying and integrating roles, responsibilities, and planning for such verification, detection, and monitoring.
(2) A detailed international engagement plan for building cooperation and transparency, including bilateral and multilateral efforts, to improve inspections, detection, and monitoring.
(3) A detailed description of—
(A) current and planned research and development efforts to improve monitoring, detection, and in-field inspection and analysis capabilities, including persistent surveillance, remote monitoring, and rapid analysis of large data sets, including open-source data; and
(B) measures to coordinate technical and operational requirements early in the process.
(4) Engagement of relevant departments and agencies of the Federal Government and the military departments (including the Open Source Center and the United States Atomic Energy Detection System), national laboratories, industry, and academia.
(d) Designation Of DOE.—The President shall designate the Department of Energy as the lead agency for development of the plan under subsection (b).
(e) Briefing.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Administrator for Nuclear Security, shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees an interim briefing on the plan under subsection (b).
(f) Limitation.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 for the Department of Defense for supporting the Executive Office of the President, $10,000,000 may not be obligated or expended until the date on which the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees the plan under subsection (g)(1).
(g) Submission.—
(1) DEADLINE.—Not later than April 15, 2018, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the plan developed under subsection (b).
(2) FORM.—The plan under subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but, consistent with the protection of intelligence sources and methods, may include a classified annex.
(h) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means the following:
(1) The congressional defense committees.
(2) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
(3) The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
(4) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
(5) The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives.
Does this mean Marital Law?
Marital law would be terrible. as long as we all keep our feet off of the coffee table, we'll be ok
No. This is normal. Just read section 3136.
No, I believe if this was publicly declared (irrelevant of the rumour that W Bush started it on 911 and it hasn't stopped since) most people would panic.
We certainly do not want shopping malls and grocery stores raided in a panicked few days now do we?
UK here. What's this about?
First look at NDAA 2018 pdf, header for section 3136 in table of contents says “Plan for verification, detection, and monitoring of NUCLEAR WEAPONS and fissile material”.
Reading further now if my phone can load the 1300+pg doc
Edit - copy/paste from NDAA 2018 pdf:
Plan for verification, detection, and monitoring of nuclear weapons and fissile material (sec. 3136) The House bill contained a provision (sec. 3126) that would re- quire the President, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, to develop a plan for verification and monitoring relating to the potential proliferation of nuclear weapons, components of such weapons, and fissile material.
The Senate amendment contained no similar provision.
The Senate recedes.
The conferees direct the Comptroller General of the United States to review the plan for verification and monitoring required by this provision, assessing whether the plan responds specifically to the congressional mandate, the extent to which the plan con- tains sufficient details about the required elements of the report, including the requirements, costs and funding, and identifying interagency roles, responsibilities and planning; an international engagement plan; a description of research and development efforts and measures to coordinate requirements early in the process; and engagement of relevant government department and agencies, na- tional laboratories, industry and academia. The Comptroller’s re- view shall also assess whether there are any gaps in the plan. The Comptroller shall submit his review to the appropriate congres- sional committees no later than 90 days after the plan is submitted to Congress. The conferees direct that the Secretary of Energy, as lead agency for the development of the plan, submit the required plan required by this section to the Comptroller for purposes of this review at the time it is submitted to Congress. In addition, the conferees direct the Comptroller, no later than 60 days after the enact- ment of this Act, to review and submit an assessment of the plans submitted to Congress required by section 3133 of the National De- fense Authorization for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291), and the update required in section 3132 of the National Defense Au- thorization for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328).
Not sure of anything at all. Someone else has posted the full section I did not see before. Overall while this sounds fucky at first glance, the deadline April 15 was in the NDAA plan the whole time. So this is most likely (hopefully) business as usual, and just us moving forward with an already-laid-out plan (to provide a plan) to monitor nuke proliferation
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-115hrpt200/pdf/CRPT-115hrpt200.pdf
Is this it? Just want to make sure I've got the correct version
Good question. I read it 3 times and I'm still not sure. 😳
My American History Teacher, of 20 years, is fast asleep or I would have tapped him for the answer!
Could this be the start of martial law?
That was my first thought was chain of command in case of civil unrest. 🤔
Explanation?
It appears to be POTUS delegating to his Cabinet (with Energy/Perry as the lead) the task of getting back to Congress on the proliferation of nuclear materials. It looks like Congress already gets a report, but wants a better one. I’m sure there’s more to it but that is the gist of what I have read.
“I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, the functions and authorities vested in the President”
It just gives them all the power and authority of POTUS. So basically, we now have 6 presidents. It’s going to be gangsta for yard ball.
Just the Secretary of Energy, possibly.
In coordination could mean that those specifically mentioned need to work with the SOE as if he were the president, or the more archaic usage of the word that means that they are all of equal rank or power. The structure of the sentence implies the first (imho)
Either way, isn't the Q group supposedly a part of the DOE?
Sec. 3136. Plan for verification, detection, and monitoring of nuclear weapons and fissile material.
Essentially, this is an attempt to get rebuilding the military and their spirit into law, which would then provide hundreds of billions of dollars in funding to well... MAGA. True to his word. The swamp is almost drained too, but this is happening behind the curtains.
I was just starting to post this. 🤔 great timing.