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This joint resolution addresses the critical issue of nuclear weapons, highlighting their existential threat to humanity and calling for comprehensive steps to reduce the risk of nuclear conflict. The resolution emphasizes that 90% of nuclear weapons are controlled by the U.S. and Russia, with seven other countries possessing the remaining arsenal, and underscores the catastrophic potential of nuclear war, including the possibility of causing global climate disruption, massive starvation, and potential human extinction. The Maryland General Assembly joins other state legislative bodies and municipalities in supporting the "Back from the Brink" initiative, which advocates for five key policies: pursuing a multilateral agreement to eliminate nuclear arsenals, renouncing first-use of nuclear weapons, ending the President's sole authority to launch nuclear attacks, taking nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, and canceling plans to modernize the nuclear arsenal. The resolution specifically urges Maryland's Congressional Delegation to cosponsor a new resolution embracing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, calls on the U.S. President and Senate to endorse this treaty, and highlights the significant financial cost of nuclear weapons, noting that Marylanders paid an estimated $2.1 billion in taxes for the nuclear weapons complex in fiscal year 2024.

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