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This resolution calls on Maryland's General Assembly to join other states in endorsing the "Back from the Brink" initiative, which aims to reduce the risk of nuclear war through five key policies: pursuing multilateral nuclear disarmament agreements, renouncing first-use of nuclear weapons, ending the President's sole authority to launch nuclear attacks, taking nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, and canceling nuclear modernization plans. The resolution urges Maryland's Congressional delegation to cosponsor federal House Resolution 77, which embraces these policies, and calls on the President and U.S. Senate to endorse the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As a non-binding resolution, this measure expresses Maryland's official position on nuclear disarmament policy but does not create any enforceable laws or requirements.