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This Senate Joint Resolution is a non-binding statement in which Maryland's General Assembly expresses support for nuclear disarmament efforts and joins other states in endorsing the "Back from the Brink" movement to reduce nuclear weapons risks. The resolution urges Maryland's Congressional delegation to cosponsor federal legislation (House Resolution 77) that embraces five specific policies: pursuing multilateral nuclear disarmament agreements, renouncing first-use of nuclear weapons, ending sole presidential 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 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, while highlighting Maryland's particular vulnerability due to its proximity to Washington, D.C.