HD 3527

This bill is a resolution by the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature) urging federal leaders to support nuclear disarmament and embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons adopted by 122 nations in 2017. The resolution calls on the federal government to take specific actions including renouncing first-use of nuclear weapons, ending the President's sole authority to launch nuclear attacks, taking U.S. nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, canceling plans to modernize the nuclear arsenal (which would cost over $1 trillion), and pursuing agreements with other nuclear-armed states to eliminate nuclear weapons. As a state legislative resolution, this bill expresses Massachusetts' official position on federal nuclear policy but does not create binding law or directly change nuclear weapons policy, which remains under federal control.