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October 19, 2015

Oct. 19	7:00 p.m., Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, "The End of Nuclear Testing?" University of Alaska Fairbanks, Murie Auditorium, Fairbanks, AK.
Oct. 19-21	General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) holds thematic discussion on nuclear weapons. United Nations. Webcast on theU.N. website.
Week of Oct. 19	Conference report on the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 1735, is submitted by Congress to President Obama (estimate). The bill is expected to be vetoed.
Oct. 20	10:00 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on "The Persistent North Korea Denuclearization and Human Rights Challenge," with Sung Kim and Robert King, State Department, 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Oct. 20	12:30-2:30 p.m. Nic von Wielligh, author of The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme; Jean du Preez, CTBTO; Neville Whiting, former director of IAEA; and Dimitri Perricos, former Acting Executive Chairman of the UNMOVIC. "The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme." Vienna Center for Disarmament And Non-Proliferation, Donau-City-Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Conference Hall, Japanese Mission, Floor 24, Vienna. RSVP online.
Oct. 20	1:00-5:00 p.m., Glen Fukushima, Center for American Progress; Bruce Klingner, Heritage Foundation; Joon Oh, Korean Ambassador to the United Nations; and Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution, "The Korean Peninsula Issues and U.S. National Security." Sponsored by the ICAS Liberty Foundation. At the Heritage Foundation, Allison Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington. RSVPonline.
Oct. 20	4:00-6:00 p.m. Rose Gottemoeler, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, "A Discussion of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty." University of Alaska Anchorage, Allied Health Sciences Building, Room 106, Anchorage, AK.
Oct. 21	Noon-1:00 p.m., Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, "Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future." University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Oct. 21	2:30-6:30 p.m., National Laboratory Day on Capitol Hill, G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington.
Oct. 21	3:30 p.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, Hearing on "Update on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program," with Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan and Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, U.S. Air Force. 2212 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Oct. 22	3:00-4:30 p.m., John Delury, Yonsei University, and Joshua Stanton, One Free Korea, "North Korea Policy Recommendations for the Next President: An NCNK Debate." Sponsored by National Committee on North Korea. 902 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. RSVP to Daniel Wertz by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Oct. 22	Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Sharif meets with President Obama. White House, Washington.
Oct. 23	1:00 p.m. EDT, Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories public conference call. RSVP by noon, Sept. 22 by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Oct. 27	10:00 a.m. House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing on "Prevention of and Response to the Arrival of a Dirty Bomb at a U.S. Port." 2253 Rayburn House Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Oct. 28	6:00 and 8:00 p.m. EDT, Republican presidential debate. University of Colorado in Boulder. Broadcast on CNBC. Debate will focus on economic issues.
Oct. 28	6:00-9:00 p.m., Oak Ridge protesters, Cree First Nation and six individuals are honored for their work in the anti-nuclear movement, "Nuclear-Free Future Awards." Sponsored by Beyond Nuclear, Green Cross International and the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington. B-338 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington.
Oct. 29	11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Beyond Nuclear, Green Cross International and the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, "Think Nuclear-Free Symposium! The Nuclear-Free Future Award." Goethe-Institut Washington, 812 Seventh St. NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Oct. 30	National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers.
Oct. or Nov.	Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Laura Holgate to be the Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Oct. or Nov.	Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratoriesreports to Congress and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (Public Law 113-76, Sec. 319).
Oct.-Dec.	Missile Defense Agency tests a Ground-based Midcourse Defense missile fromVandenberg Air Force Base, CA, against an intermediate-range ballistic missile target launched from Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Nov. 2-9	General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) votes on resolutions. (Nov. 9 session only if necessary.) United Nations. Webcast on the U.N. website.
Nov. 3	U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi, and mayoral elections in many cities.
Nov. 4	5:00-7:30 p.m. Rebecca Hersman and Franklin Miller, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "Reliving History: A Retrospective on Trident." CSIS, Second Floor B Room, 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP online. Webcast on the CSIS website.
Nov. 6-15	House of Representatives Veterans Day recess.
Nov. 9	1:00-4:00 p.m., George Shultz, former Secretary of State, and Sidney Drell, Stanford University, "Dwight D. Eisenhower Award Special Session Panel." Part of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting. Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington. Register online.
Nov. 9	Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Obama. White House, Washington.
Nov. 10	Noon-1:30 p.m. John Mercier, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, "Nuclear Detonation Effects in an Urban Area." Virginia Tech Research Center, 900 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA. RSVP online. Webcast online.
Nov. 11	Veterans Day (federal holiday).
Nov. 12	12:30-1:30 p.m., Elbridge Colby, Center for a New American Security, and Ward Wilson, British American Security Council, "Stimson Debate: Nuclear Weapons and International Stability." Stimson Center, 1211 Connecticut Ave. NW, Eighth Floor, Washington. RSVP online.
Nov. 12-15	Friend Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), annual meeting. Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington.
Nov. 14	Democratic presidential debate. Des Moines, IA. Broadcast on CBS News.
Nov. 15-16	President Obama attends a G-20 summit. Antalya, Turkey.
Nov. 16	6:00-9:00 p.m. CST, Lawrence M. Krauss, author of Universe from Nothing; William J. Perry, 19th Secretary of Defense; and Julia M. Stasch, President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' 70th Anniversary Dinner Celebration." Museum of Science and Industry, 5700 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. RSVP online.
Nov. 16-18	International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification meeting. Oslo, Norway.
Nov. 17-18	President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Manila, Philippines.
Nov. 21-29	House and Senate Thanksgiving recess. House recess begins Nov. 20.
Nov. 22	60th anniversary of the first Soviet thermonuclear test. Semipalatinsk Test Site, then in the Soviet Union and now in Kazakhstan.
Nov. 26	Thanksgiving (holiday).
Nov. 26-27	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Nov. 30	Office of Management and Budget returns amended budget requests to federal agencies for fiscal year 2017, known as budget passbacks (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 1.
Nov.	Republican presidential debate. City TBA, WI. Broadcast on the Fox Business Network.
Nov. 30-Dec. 4	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 20th annual conference. The Hague.
Nov. or Dec.	United Kingdom completes a Strategic Defence and Security Review.
Dec. 6	Hanukkah begins at sunset. Through Dec. 14.
Dec. 10	12:00-1:30 p.m., Gary Samore, Harvard University, "The Prague Agenda after the Iran Deal." CISAC Central Conference Room, Encina Hall, Second Floor, 616 Serra St, Stanford, CA.
Dec. 14	75th anniversary of the discovery of plutonium.
Dec. 15	Yukiya Amano, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency, submits an assessment to the Board of Governors on outstanding issues regarding military aspects of Iran’s nuclear program. Vienna.
Dec. 15	Republican presidential debate. Las Vegas, NV. Broadcast on CNN.
Dec. 18	House and Senate adjournment (tentative).
Dec. 19	Democratic presidential debate. Manchester, NH. Broadcast on ABC News.
Dec. 19-Jan. 4	House and Senate Christmas-New Year's recess
Dec. 22	Fifth anniversary of the U.S. Senate ratification of the New START treaty on a 71-26 vote. The treaty reduces the maximum number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons by the United States and Russia from 2,200 to 1,550 each.
Dec. 25	Christmas (holiday).
Dec. 30	U.S.-China nuclear cooperation agreement ("123 agreement") expires.
Dec.	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.
Winter	China and United States hold the first meeting of new annual bilateral nuclear security talks. Location TBA.
TBA	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM.
TBA	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for theSurplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC.
2016
Jan. 1	New Year's Day (holiday).
Jan. 5	Congress convenes (estimate).
Jan. 17	Democratic presidential debate. Charleston, SC. Broadcast on NBC News.
Jan. 27	65th anniversary of the first nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site.
Jan.	Republican president debate, City TBA, IA. Broadcast on Fox News.
Feb. 5	Fifth anniversary of the New START treaty entering into force. The treaty reduces the maximum number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons by the United States and Russia from 2,200 to 1,550 each.
Feb. 6	Republican presidential debate. Manchester, NH. Broadcast on ABC News.
Feb. 13	Republican presidential debate. City TBA, SC. Broadcast on CBS News.
Feb. 26	Republican presidential debate. Houston. Broadcast on NBC and Telemundo.
Feb. 26	Iranian parliamentary elections.
Feb. or March	Democratic presidential debate. Miami. Broadcast on Univision.
Feb. or March	Democratic presidential debate. City TBA, WI. Broadcast on PBS.
March 7-11	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Mach 10	Republican presidential debate. City TBA, FL. Broadcast on CNN.
March 19	U.S.-South Korean civil nuclear cooperation agreement ("123 agreement") expires.
March 30	NGO Side Event to the Nuclear Security Summit. Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington.
March 31-April 1	President Obama attends the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit. Washington Convention Center.
May 9-13	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
June 6-10	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
July 8-9	President Obama attends a NATO summit. Warsaw, Poland.
Sept. 19-23	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Sept. 26	First Presidential Debate. Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
Oct. 3	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Oct. 4	Vice presidential debate, Longwood University, Farmville, VA.
Oct. 9	Second presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Oct. 19	Third presidential debate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV.
Nov. 14-18	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Dec. 4	Russian Duma elections (tentative).
Dec. 5-9	International Atomic Energy Agency, International Conference on Nuclear Security. Vienna.

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