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This Senate Joint Resolution is a non-binding statement in which the Maryland General Assembly formally expresses its concern about nuclear weapons and calls for federal action to reduce nuclear war risks. The resolution urges Maryland's Congressional delegation to co-sponsor federal House Resolution 77, which supports five key policies including pursuing multilateral nuclear disarmament, renouncing first-use of nuclear weapons, ending the President's sole authority to launch nuclear attacks, taking weapons off hair-trigger alert, and canceling nuclear modernization plans. Additionally, it calls on the U.S. President and Senate to endorse the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, while citing the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear war and Maryland's particular vulnerability due to its proximity to Washington, D.C.