Back from the Brink
Joe Wasserman
December 2024
Back from the Brink is an organization working to alert the nation to the growing danger of nuclear war as a real possibility. To that end, Back from the Brink has spearheaded a national campaign to promote House Resolution 77 (H. Res 77). This resolution outlines specific steps that can be taken to reduce the danger of a nuclear confrontation.
Photo: "Ivy Mike" atmospheric nuclear test in November 1952
Photo credit: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
House Resolution 77 calls for
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Actively pursuing and concluding negotiations on a new, bilateral nuclear arms control and disarmament framework agreement with the Russian Federation before 2026 and pursuing negotiations with China and other nuclear-armed states on an agreement or agreements for the verifiable, enforceable, and timebound elimination of global nuclear arsenals;
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Renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first;
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Ending the president's sole authority to launch a nuclear attack;
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Taking the nuclear weapons of the United States off hair-trigger alert; and
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Canceling the plan to replace the nuclear arsenal of the United States with modernized, enhanced weapons.
Back from the Brink CT is circulating an open letter to our U.S. House Representatives, asking them to cosponsor H. Res 77. Please contact Joe Wasserman at joewass64@yahoo.com or at 860-561-1897 if you would like to add your name as a signer to this letter.
Read an open letter to the Connecticut delegate of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Joe Wasserman is a Sierra Club member and community activist.