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[Alternatively, select the text below, copy and paste this letter into an email and send it to [email protected] – edit however you wish. Please don’t forget to include your full name, address and phone number at the bottom in either case.] Dear Rep. Higgins,

Thank you for your continued support of legislation to address the existential threat of nuclear weapons, including H.3688 A Resolve to Establish a Citizens Commission to research and recommend to the state legislature ways to better protect the citizens of Massachusetts from this threat. Given the situation in Ukraine, this Commission is needed now more than ever.

I understand this bill is now with the House Ways and Means Committee, which you are on. Please urge your colleagues on this Committee to support this bill and to press the chair for a vote on it.

Massachusetts is deeply embedded in the nuclear weapons business, as you know. Draper Labs in Cambridge is one of the main centers for nuclear weapons research in the country. Major nuclear weapons contractors like General Dynamics, Raytheon and Textron all have large facilities based in Massachusetts. Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, MA, is a major command and control center for US nuclear weapons.

These nuclear weapons facilities make Massachusetts a major target in the event of nuclear war. They also provide jobs and income to the state. The Citizens’ Commission would look into how Massachusetts could remove itself from the nuclear weapons business while protecting livelihoods and the local economy. It would do research and hold hearings with experts and local residents across the state. It would report back to the state government with recommendations for future legislation.

Even for those who support nuclear weapons or are on the fence, there is no good reason to oppose the creation of a Commission to look into all this more deeply. Please help us get this bill passed into law!

Thanks for your help.

Yours,

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