The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation hosts private events for Members of Congress and their staffs. The events listed below are open only to Members of Congress or Congressional staffers, as indicated.
Virtual Staff Briefings
- August 6: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Lessons for Today, with Sharon Squassoni and Dylan Spaulding
In-Person Staff Briefings
- July 23: Unrest on the Korean Peninsula, with Ankit Panda and Jenny Town
Members-Only Dinners
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July 23: Unrest on the Korean Peninsula
WHEN: 12-1 p.m. ET
WHERE: North Congressional Meeting Room (CVC 268)
RSVP HERE
Lunch will be provided!
The security situation on the Korean Peninsula remains a consistent concern with North Korea’s nuclear program “completely off the charts” and growing calls for nuclear options in South Korea. To add to the uncertainty, underpinning this already insecure situation are questions surrounding the reliability of the U.S. extended deterrence in East Asia. We invite you to join the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation for an in-person congressional staff briefing on Wednesday, July 23 to explore the precarious situation on the peninsula and the future of its nuclear footprint.
- Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research interests include nuclear strategy, escalation, missiles and missile defense, space security, and U.S. alliances. Panda has consulted for the United Nations in New York and Geneva, and his analysis has been sought by U.S. Strategic Command, Space Command, and Indo-Pacific Command. Panda is among the most highly cited experts worldwide on North Korean nuclear capabilities. He has testified on matters related to South Korea and Japan before the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Panda has also testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. Before joining Carnegie, Panda was an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and a journalist covering international security.
- Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security. She was named one of Worth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020: 50 Women Changing the World” and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2019 for her role in co-founding and managing the 38 North website, which provides policy and technical analysis on North Korea. Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project; an Associate Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Member of the National Committee on North Korea, and an Associate Member of the Council of Korean Americans. She serves on the Editorial Board for Inkstick, an online foreign policy journal for emerging scholars. From 2008-2018, Ms. Town served as the Assistant Director of the US-Korea Institute at SAIS.
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan organization funded by foundations and contributions from individuals. There is no taxpayer, corporate, political, or lobbyist funding for this project.
August 6: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Lessons for Today
WHEN: August 6, 12-12:45 p.m.
WHERE: Virtual
REGISTER: Register here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the briefing.
It’s been 80 years since the United States changed the world forever by dropping nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Join the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation as we commemorate these pivotal events and grapple with the impact that they have had on our world by diving into the implications of renewed nuclear testing and how we can reduce the risks posed by nuclear weapons today.
- Sharon Squassoni is a research professor at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, at The George Washington University. She has specialized in nuclear nonproliferation, arms control and security policy for three decades, serving in the US government at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the State Department, and the Congressional Research Service. Since 2007, she has directed research programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A political scientist by training, she holds degrees from the State University of New York at Albany, the University of Maryland, and the National War College. She sits on the boards of key organizations in the field, including the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, the Wisconsin Project on Arms Control, the PIR Center, and, previously, the Science & Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
- Dylan Spaulding is a senior scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Before joining the Union of Concerned Scientists, Dr. Spaulding’s research focused on material properties at extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. He conducted experiments using a variety of static and dynamic compression techniques in the lab to understand how material properties evolve within planetary interiors and stars, as well as conditions relevant to nuclear detonation. He earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Brown University and Ph.D in Earth and Planetary Sciences from UC Berkeley. Dr. Spaulding has long been involved with the US National Labs as an intern, NNSA Stockpile Stewardship Graduate Fellow, and visiting scientist and experimenter.
