HR 5973

This Rhode Island House Resolution urges the federal government to take comprehensive action to reduce the risk of nuclear war, including signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), making nuclear disarmament central to U.S. national security policy, and leading global efforts to prevent nuclear conflict. The resolution highlights the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons use, criticizes the current U.S. policy that allows presidential sole authority to launch nuclear weapons and maintains missiles on hair-trigger alert, and calls for redirecting the planned trillion-dollar nuclear arsenal modernization toward addressing human needs. As a state resolution rather than binding legislation, this measure expresses Rhode Island's legislative position on federal nuclear weapons policy and adds the state's voice to the growing movement for nuclear disarmament.