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Friends Committee on National Legislation

Sept. 12	10:00 a.m. House Foreign Affairs Committee, "Hearing: Sanctions, Diplomacy, and Information: Pressuring North Korea," 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. Webcast available online.
Sept. 12	2:30 p.m. Senate Subcommittee on Energy, "Hearing on Fostering Innovation: Contributions of the Department of Energy's National Laboratories," 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington D.C. Webcast available online.
Sept. 12-14	"National Cleanup Workshop," Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, 5000 Seminary Rd., Alexandria, VA.
Sept. 13	9:00-10:30 a.m. Rep. Adam Smith (WA). Center for a New American Security. "A Conversation with HASC Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA): Russia, the Military, and Emerging Threats." Center for a New American Security,1152 15th Street, NW, Suite 950, Washington, D.C. RSVP online.
Sept. 13	12:30-2:00 p.m. Thomas Shea, Federation of American Scientists, "Verifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons," Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation (VCDNP), Donau-City Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13/1, 1220 Vienna, Austria, RSVP online.
Sept. 13	1:00-3:00 p.m. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "Nuclear Balancing Act in Japan after 2018," with five speakers. CSIS, 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Sept. 13	3:30-5:00 p.m. Wilson Center, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, University of Oslo, "Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons." Wilson Center, Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. RSVP online.
Sept. 14	11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, "America's and Japan's Other Emerging Nuclear Problem." Rayburn House Office Building 2172, Washington, D.C. RSVP to Bianca Zhang by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sept. 14	Noon-1:15 p.m. Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council, "Losing an Enemy--Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy." Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, 4113 Van Munching Hall College Park, MD.
Sept. 14	12:30-2:00 p.m. Justin Hastings, University of Sydney, "Mapping Networks to Improve Emerging Nuclear States' Non-Proliferation Efforts: The Middle East and Southeast Asia," VCDNP, Donau-City Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13/1, 1220 Vienna, Austria, RSVP online.
Sept. 14	6:00-7:30 p.m. Suzanne DiMaggio, New America, and Jay Solomon "New York Discussion: Tensions with Iran." The Princeton Club of New York, 15 West 43rd Street, New York, NY. RSVP online.
Sept. 17	2:00-3:30 p.m. Carnegie Endowment, "Weighing Bad Options: Past Diplomacy with North Korea and Alliance Options Today," 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. RSVP online.
Sept. 18-19	The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), "Symposium to Update Cooperative Threat Reduction for the Next Ten Years and Beyond." NAS Keck Center, 500 5th St., NW, Washington, D.C. RSVP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sept. 20	Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset. Through Sept. 22.
Sept. 20	First day for States Parties to sign on to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the annual United Nations General Assembly.
Sept. 23	25th anniversary of the last U.S. nuclear test, "Divider." Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.
Sept. 24	Germany holds federal parliamentary elections.
Sept. 24	1:00 p.m., Dr. Alan Robock, Rutgers University, "Nuclear Famine: The Threat to Humanity from Nuclear Weapons," All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave. (@80th St.), New York, NY.
Sept. 25	Noon-3:30 p.m. Atlantic Council, "How Europe and Iran's Neighbors View the Nuclear Deal Future." Two panels with seven speakers. Atlantic Council, 1030 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. RSVP online.
Sept. 25	5:00-6:00 p.m. Brandon J. Weichert, The Weichert Report,"Does Europe Need Nukes," Institute of World Politics, 1521 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C. RSVP online.
Sept. 26	International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Sept. 27	4:30-6:00 p.m., Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "Debate: Future of the INF Treaty," with four speakers. CSIS, 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Sept. 29	Yom Kippur begins at sunset. Through Oct. 12.
Oct. 1	Federal budget year begins.
Oct. 1	25th anniversary of the U.S. Senate ratification of the START I treaty on a 93-6 vote. The treaty reduced the number of U.S. and Russian deployed strategic nuclear weapons by 80 percent to 6,000 each.
Oct. 3	65th anniversary of the first British nuclear test. Montebello Islands, Western Australia.
Oct. 9	Columbus Day (federal holiday).
Oct. 11-12	Center for Strategic and International Studies Project on Nuclear Issues (CSIS PONI) Fall Conference, Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, LA. Register online by September 11.
Oct. 11	7:00 p.m., Geoff Wilson, Ploughshares Fund, "The Danger of 'Usable' Nuclear Weapons." Unitarian Universalist Church, 2120 North Fee Lane, Bloomington, IN.
Oct. 13	9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Institute for Corean American Studies (ICAS) Fall Symposium, "The Korean Peninsula Issues and US National Security," Allison Auditorium, Heritage Foundation, 224 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington D.C. RSVP 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. 6	9:00 a.m.-noon, Cato Institute, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?" with nine speakers. Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. RSVP online.
Nov. 6	6:00-9:00 p.m., Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Annual Dinner.
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. 10	Veterans Day observed (federal holiday).
Nov. 10-11	President Trump attends an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders meeting. Da Nang, Vietnam (tentative).
Nov. 11	Veterans Day
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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