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blue enso 240 Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation

October 23, 2017

Oct. 23	11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m., "Opportunities for U.S.-Korea Cooperation in Advanced Nuclear: Industrial, R&D, and Other Collaboration," with five speakers, Global America Business Institute, Rayburn House Office Building Room 2325, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Oct. 23	2:00-3:00 p.m., James Doyle, author, "Global Launch: Renewing America's Nuclear Arsenal: Options for the 21st Century," International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2121 K St NW, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Oct. 23	4:00-5:30 p.m., William Taubman, Amherst College, "Gorbachev: His Life and Times," Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Oct. 25	Noon-1:30 p.m., Larry Pressler, Ret. U.S. Senator from South Dakota, "Neighbours in Arms: An American Senator's Quest for Disarmament in a Nuclear Subcontinent," Hudson Institute, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Oct. 25	Noon-1:30 p.m., Laurie Swami and Elena Mantagaris, Nuclear Waste Management Organization, "Canada's Approach to Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel," Global America Business Institute, 1001 Connecticut Ave Suite 230, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Oct. 25	7:00 p.m., "Teach In: On the Brink of War: US Allies in ROK and Japan Respond," speakers to be confirmed. Women Cross DMZ, register for webinar online.
Oct. 25	11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Gen. Petr Pavel, NATO Military Committee, Reinforcing the NATO Alliance to Meet Today's Security Threats," German Marshall Fund, 1744 R Street, Washington, DC.
Oct. 25	4:00 p.m., Sir Rodric Braithwaite, UK Foreign Office (former), Armageddon and Paranoia," Royal United Institute of Service, London, UK. RSVP online.
Oct. 25	10:00 a.m., Philip Gordon, Council on Foreign Relations; Olli Heinonen, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mark Wallace, United Against Nuclear Iran, Hearing: The President's Iran Decision: Next Steps, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. Webcast available online.
Oct. 26	8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Nuclear Weapons Policy in a Time of Crisis," livestreamed conference with 17 speakers, Ploughshares, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Oct. 26	11:00 a.m.-noon, "The Path Forward on Iran: Contain, Enforce, Engage," with six speakers, Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Oct. 26	4:00 p.m., Joon-Pyo Hong, Former Presidential Candidate of the Liberty Korea Party, "Redeploying US Nuclear Weapons to South Korea," National Press Club, 529 14th St, Washington, DC.
Oct. 28	10:00-11:30 a.m., Mansoor Ahmed, Project on Managing the Atom, "Posturing to Deter: The Drivers and Contours of Pakistan's Strategic Program," Room 324 Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA.
Oct. 29-Nov. 1	Peace Corps Iran Association, Conference and Reunion, including panel on current state of Iranian-American relations with Ambassador John Limbert, Trita Parsi, and Barbara Slavin, Loews Annapolis Hotel, 126 West Street, Annapolis, MD. Register via mail or online.
Nov. 1	10:00-11:30 a.m., Ronald Lehman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Have We Trivialized Disarmament?" Room 324 Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA.
Nov. 1	7:00 p.m., Erica Fein, Win Without War; Dan Jasper, American Friends Service Committee; Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action, Teach In: Concrete Asks for Congress to Stop US War on North Korea," RSVP for webinar online.
Nov. 1	65th anniversary of the world's first hydrogen bomb test by the United States, Ivy Mike. The test was 700 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb and vaporized the island of Elugelab, Marshall Islands.
Nov. 3	1:30-4:30 p.m., Robert Einhorn, Brookings Institution, "The North Korean Threat and US National Security," Institute for Corean American Studies (ICAS), Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Nov. 3	President Trump in Hawaii (tentative). Briefing at U.S. PACOM, visiting Pearl Harbor and USS Arizona Memorial.
Nov. 4	9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., "Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?," Conference with 10 speakers, Massachusetts Peace Action, Harvard University Science Center C, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA. RSVP online.
Nov. 5	President Trump in Japan (tentative). Meeting with Shinzo Abe and families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea.
Nov. 6	9:00 a.m.-noon, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?" with nine speakers. Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC. RSVPonline.
Nov. 6	Noon-5:30 p.m., Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Annual Meeting, University Club of Chicago, 76 E Monroe St, Chicago, IL. Purchase tickets by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it."="">Lisa McCabe.
Nov. 6	6:00-9:00 p.m., David Sanger, New York Times, Ellen Sandor, (art)n, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Annual Dinner. University Club of Chicago, 76 E St., Chicago, IL. Purchase tickets online.
Nov. 7	8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Global Security Forum 2017, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 1616 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Nov. 7	6:00-7:00 p.m., Torrey Froscher, Former Chief of Analysis at CIA Nonproliferation Center, "North Korea's Nuclear Program--The Early Years: An Intelligence Perspective, Non-Proliferation Education Center, North Carolina State University.
Nov. 7	President Trump in South Korea (tentative). Meeting with Moon Jae-In, speech at National Assembly.
Nov. 7	U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, and mayoral elections in New York City and many cities.
Nov. 8	10:00-11:30 a.m., Alexander Bollfrass, Project on Managing the Atom, "The Half-Lives of Others: Explaining the Accuracy of Nuclear Proliferation Intelligence Assessments," Room 324 Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA.
Nov. 8	President Trump in China (tentative). Meeting with Xi Jinping.
Nov. 8	12:30-2:00 p.m., Leland Cogliani, Lewis-Burke Associates LLC, "Lessons from the U.S. Senate: Nuclear Policy in the Obama and Trump Administrations," Princeton University, 221 Nassau St., 2nd Floor Conference Room, Princeton, NJ.
Nov. 10-11	President Trump in Vietnam (tentative). Giving speech at APEC CEO Summit, meeting with Tran Dai Quang.
Nov. 10	Veterans Day observed (federal holiday).
Nov. 11	Veterans Day
Nov. 12-13	President Trump in Philippines (tentative). Participating in Special Gala Celebration Dinner for the 50th Anniversary of ASEAN, meeting with Rodrigo Duerte at U.S.-ASEAN Summit.
Nov. 13-15	Seminar Forum: Peace on the Korean Peninsula, United Methodist Church, 100 Maryland Ave NE, Washington, DC. Email Amy Hong to register.
Nov. 16	5:00 p.m., Gen. Denis Mercier, NATO; Maj. Gen. William Hickman, Supreme Allied Command Transformation; Amy McAuliffe, National Intelligence Council; Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution, "Preparing NATO for Future Global Challenges," Atlantic Council, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St NW, Washington, DC. RSVP online.
Nov. 23	Thanksgiving (holiday).
Dec. 2	75th anniversary of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. University of Chicago.
Dec. 8	30th anniversary of the signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty by President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Washington. The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 300 and 3,400 miles.
Dec. 12	Hanukkah begins at sunset. Through Dec. 20
Dec. 25	Christmas (holiday).
TBA	President Trump attends a NATO summit. Brussels.
TBA	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, NM.
2018
Jan. 7-14	ISODARCO, "The Evolving Nuclear Order: New Technology and Nuclear Risk." International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts.
Feb. 5	New START Treaty due date for U.S. and Russia to reach a limit of 1,550 deployed strategic weapons each.
March 6	U.S. sanctions against Russia expire.
March 11	Russian presidential election.

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Founded by David Culp. Edited by Anthony Wier and Jamie DeMarco. The publication is made possible by generous contributions from the Lippincott Foundation, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Ploughshares Fund, and anonymous foundation, and the individual contributors and supporters of the Friends Committee on National Legislation and the FCNL Education Fund.

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