U.S. federal statutes on war and defense
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Title 50 of the United States Code outlines the role of War and National Defense in the United States Code.
Chapter 1: Council of National Defense
Chapter 2: Board of Ordnance and Fortification (repealed)
Chapter 3: Alien Enemies
Chapter 4: Espionage (repealed/transferred)
Chapter 4a: Photographing, Sketching, Mapping, Etc., Defensive Installations (repealed)
Chapter 4b: Disclosure of Classified Information (repealed)
Chapter 4c: Atomic Weapons and Special Nuclear Materials Information Rewards
Chapter 5: Arsenals, Armories, Arms, And War Material Generally
Chapter 6: Willful Destruction, Etc., Of War Or National-Defense Material (repealed)
Chapter 7: Interference With Homing Pigeons Owned by United States (repealed)
Chapter 8: Explosives; Manufacture, Distribution, Storage, Use, And Possession Regulated (repealed)
Chapter 9: Aircraft (repealed/transferred/omitted)
Chapter 10: Helium Gas
Chapter 11: Acquisition Of And Expenditures On Land For National-Defense Purposes (repealed/transferred/omitted)
Chapter 12: Vessels In Territorial Waters of United States
Chapter 13: Insurrection
Chapter 14: Wartime Voting by Land and Naval Forces (repealed)
Chapter 15: National Security (transferred)
Chapter 16: Defense Industrial Reserves
Chapter 17: Arming American Vessels (repealed)
Chapter 18: Air-Warning Screen
Chapter 19: Guided Missiles
Chapter 20: Wind Tunnels
Chapter 21: Abacá Production (omitted)
Chapter 22: Uniform Code of Military Justice Repealed – see Title 10 of the United States Code
Chapter 22a: Representation Of Armed Forces Personnel Before Foreign Judicial Tribunals (repealed)
Chapter 23: Internal Security
Chapter 24: National Defense Facilities (repealed)
Chapter 25: Armed Forces Reserve (repealed/omitted)
Chapter 26: Gifts for Defense Purposes (repealed)
Chapter 27: Reserve Officer Personnel Program (repealed/omitted)
Chapter 28: Status of Armed Forces Personnel Appointed to Service Academies (repealed)
Chapter 29: National Defense Contracts
Chapter 30: Federal Absentee Voting Assistance (transferred)
Chapter 31: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (transferred)
Chapter 32: Chemical and Biological Warfare Program
Chapter 33: War Powers Resolution
Chapter 34: National Emergencies
Chapter 35: International Emergency Economic Powers
Chapter 36: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Chapter 37: National Security Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants
Chapter 38: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability
Chapter 39: Spoils of War
Chapter 40: Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chapter 41: National Nuclear Security Administration
Chapter 42: Atomic Energy Defense Provisions
Chapter 43: Preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
Chapter 44: National Security
Chapter 45: Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities
Chapter 46: Central Intelligence Agency
Chapter 47: National Security Agency
Chapter 48: Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction
Chapter 49: Military Selective Service
Chapter 50: Servicemembers Civil Relief
Chapter 51: War Claims
Chapter 52: Restitution for World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and Aleuts
Chapter 53: Trading with the Enemy
Chapter 54: Merchant Ship Sales (repealed/transferred)
Chapter 55: Defense Production Act
Chapter 56: Export Administration
Chapter 57: Claims Under the Clarification Act
Chapter 58: Export Control Reform
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Title 31 of the United States Code outlines the role of the money and finance in the United States Code . The title was codified September 13, 1982 as "Money...
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