S 1487

This bill is a resolution by the Massachusetts General Court calling on the federal government to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and adopt the "Back from the Brink" platform to reduce nuclear war risks. The resolution urges specific federal actions including pursuing agreements to eliminate nuclear arsenals, renouncing first-use of nuclear weapons, ending the President's sole authority to launch nuclear attacks, taking weapons off hair-trigger alert, and canceling plans to modernize the nuclear arsenal. While acknowledging that nuclear weapons policy is primarily a federal matter, the resolution positions Massachusetts as joining other states and localities in advocating for nuclear disarmament, citing the state's historical role in the 1980s Nuclear Freeze movement as precedent for state-level leadership on this issue.