H.Res. 302 calls on President to “embrace” the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) introduced the resolution to the U.S. House of Representatives on April 10, 2019. It calls on the US President to “embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of the national security policy of the United States.”
In line with the “Back from the Brink” national platform, it further calls for the US to “lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war” by:
(A) renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first;
(B) ending the President’s sole authority to launch a nuclear attack;
(C) taking the nuclear weapons of the United States off hair-trigger alert;
(D) canceling the plan to replace the nuclear arsenal of the United States with modernized, enhanced weapons; and
(E) actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to mutually eliminate their nuclear arsenals.
Full text of the resolution available here.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer of OR is an original co-sponsor, together with Rep. Jim McGovern of MA. H.Res. 302 has so far been co-sponsored also by:
- Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton of DC
- Rep. Barbara Lee of CA
- Rep. Carolyn Maloney of NY
- Rep. Pramila Jayapal of WA
- Rep. Chellie Pingree of ME
- Rep. Andy Levin of MI
- Rep. Jamie Raskin of MD
- Rep. Lloyd Doggett of TX