SD 266

This bill is a resolution by the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature) that calls on the federal government to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and endorses the "Back from the Brink" platform to reduce nuclear war risks. The resolution urges federal leaders to take specific 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 a leader in advocating for nuclear disarmament, following the state's historical role in the 1980s Nuclear Freeze movement and joining similar efforts by other state legislatures and local governments.