Urge your Representatives to bring us back from the brink of nuclear war today! 

Congressman Jim McGovern and Congresswoman Jill Tokuda recently reintroduced legislation to call on the United States to lead a global effort to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons. Congressman McGovern is the Ranking Member on the powerful House Rules Committee while Congresswoman Tokuda serves on the House Armed Services Committee. Their leadership on this issue underpins the importance of reducing the risk of nuclear war. 

The resolution reaffirms the United States' moral and strategic obligation to prevent nuclear war and calls on the United States to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons as a national security imperative. In addition, the legislation urges the United States to: 

• Engage in good-faith negotiations with all nuclear-armed states to halt the buildup of nuclear arsenals and pursue verifiable, time-bound reductions; 

• Conclude new arms control agreements with Russia and engage China on nuclear risk reduction; 

• Renounce the option of using nuclear weapons first; 

• End the Cold War-era “hair trigger alert” posture; 

• Rein in the production of new nuclear warheads and delivery systems; 

• Preserve the moratorium on nuclear testing; 

• Protect radiation-impacted communities and workers through full remediation, compensation, and expanded health care, including an expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA); and 

• Plan a just economic transition for workers and communities dependent on the nuclear weapons industry. 

Council for a Livable World supports this legislation because it is time for our elected officials to take a stand on this topic and push back against the seemingly endless calls for more spending on nuclear weapons that bring us closer to disaster.  

Tell you Representative to support this critical legislation! 

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