Nuclear Calendar -- March 14, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- March 14, 2011
March 14 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a G-8 foreign ministers meeting. Paris. |
March 14 | 6:30-8:30 p.m., Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, book release of Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks. B-369 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. RSVP to Shannon Traylor by |
March 15 | House of Representatives floor action on a sixth Continuing Resolution for appropriations through April 8, H.J.Res. 48. Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN. |
March 15 | 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Suzanne Nossel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations; Jonas Hafström, Swedish Ambassador to the U.S.; Rep. Keith Ellison (MN); Nazila Fathi, New York Times; Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch; Nader Hashemi, University of Denver; and Alireza Nader, RAND, "Answering the Iranian People's Call for Human Rights." Sponsored by the National Iranian American Council. 106 Dirksen Senate Building, Washington. RSVPonline. |
March 15 | 9:30-11:00 a.m., Mahsa Rouhi, Harvard University, "An Analysis of Nuclear Negotiations with Iran Seminar." Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA. |
March 15 | 10:00 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water,hearing on the Energy Department budget, with Energy Secretary Steven Chu. 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video and audio webcast on the committee website. |
March 15 | 3:00 p.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces,hearing on the budget for national security space activities, with Erin Conaton, Undersecretary of the Air Force; Gen. William Shelton, Commander, Air Force Space Command; Gregory Schulte, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy; and Betty Sapp, Principal Deputy Director, National Reconnaissance Office. 2212 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on thecommittee website. |
March 15 | 6:00-8:00 p.m., screening of Countdown To Zero. American University, School of International Service Founder's Room, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. |
March 15 or 16 | Senate floor action on a sixth Continuing Resolution for appropriations through April 8, H.J.Res. 48. Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN2. |
March 16 | 9:00-11:00 a.m., Erin Conaton, Undersecretary of the Air Force, "Air Force Space Policy and Programs." Sponsored by the Marshall Institute. National Press Club, 529 14th St, NW, Washington. RSVP by |
March 16 | 10:30 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, hearing on the budget for the United Nations and other international organizations, with Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nation, and Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. B-308 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast. |
March 16 | 2:30 p.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the updated National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, with Andrew Gibb, National Intelligence Council. SVC-217 Capitol Visitor Center, Washington (closed). |
March 16 | 6:30-8:00 p.m., Scott Sagan, Stanford University, "Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation." Georgetown University, Mortara Center, 36th and N Sts., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
March 17 | 9:00-10:30 a.m., George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment; Jane Vaynman, Harvard University; Thomas Fingar, Stanford University; Scott Sagan, Stanford University; and Edward Warner, Defense Department; "Arms, Disarmament, and Influence: International Responses to the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review." Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP by |
March 17 | 9:30 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee, hearing on "The Global Nuclear Revival and U.S. Nonproliferation Policy," with Olli Heinonen, Harvard University; Henry Sokolsk, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; Gene Aloise, Government Accountability Office; and William Perry, former Defense Secretary. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website. |
March 17 | 3:30-5:00 p.m., Bekhzod Yuldashev, Stanford University "Spent Nuclear Fuel and Nonproliferation." Stanford University, Encina Hall Central, CISAC Conference Room, Second Floor, 616 Serra St., Palo Alto, CA. |
March 18-28 | House and Senate recess. (Senate recess is March 19-27.) |
March 19-22 | Civilian Soldier Alliance, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Peace Action, United for Peace and Justice, and Veterans for Peace, spring lobby weekend. True Reformer Building, 1200 U St., NW, Washington. Register online. For information, contact Matt Southworth by |
March 20 | 6:30 p.m., Environmental Film Festival, screening of Countdown To Zero. At the Carnegie Institution for Science, Elihu Root Auditorium, 1530 P St., NW, Washington. |
March 21 | 7:00 p.m., Environmental Film Festival, screening of Black Ocean (Noir Ocean), about three sailors aboard a naval vessel in 1972 taking part in nuclear tests in French Polynesia. At the La Maison Française, French Embassy, 4101 Reservoir Rd., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
March 21-23 | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Missile Defense Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington (closed). |
March 22 | 7:00 p.m., Jennifer Smyser, Stanley Foundation, "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism." Bettendorf Public Library, Second Floor, 2950 Learning Campus Dr., Bettendorf, IA. |
March 22 or earlier | United States and Russia exchange information on each other's strategic nuclear arsenal under the New START Treaty. |
March 22-23 | Defense Secretary Robert Gates meets with Russian officials. Moscow. Missile defense cooperation is on the agenda. |
March 25-26 | 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (March 25), and 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. (March 26), University of California Washington Center, "Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Winter Conference," with Elaine Bunn, National Defense University; Benn Tannenbaum, American Association for the Advancement of Science; and 20 other speakers. University of California Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP to Laura Martin by |
March 25-28 | Ecumenical Advocacy Days. Doubletree Crystal City-National Airport Hotel, 300 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, VA (March 25-27), and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., NE, Washington (March 28). Register online. |
March 26-27 | 8:45 a.m.-5:15 p.m. (March 26), and 9:30 a.m.,-1:30 p.m. (March 27), International Network of Emerging Nuclear Specialists, "Nuclear Policy Dialogue," with Gary Samore, National Security Council; Tibor Toth, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization; and 16 other speakers. George Washington University, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
March 28 | 9:00 a.m. Sentencing for five Disarm Now Plowshares defendants for civil disobedience. U.S. District Court, Union Station Courthouse, 1717 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, WA. Related events on March 26 and 27. |
March 28-29 | Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. Register online. |
March 29 | 9:30-11:00 a.m., Alex Roesler, Sandia National Labs, "Today's U.S. Nuclear Stockpile." Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA. |
March 30 | 9:00 a.m.-noon, Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists; Anne Harrington, National Nuclear Security Administration; Mary Alice Hayward, AREVA; Laura Holgate, National Security Council; Roger Howsley, World Institute of Nuclear Security; Jean Jalouneix, Institut de Radioprotection et Sûreté Nucleair, France; and Igor Khripunov, University of Georgia in Athens, "The Human Dimension of Nuclear Security." Sponsored by University of Georgia in Athens. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP to Andrea Pries by |
March 30 | 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., State Department, "Generation Prague: Arms Control and Nonproliferation in the 21st Century." State Department, East Auditorium, George Marshall Conference Center, 21st St., NW, between C St. and Virginia Ave., Washington. RSVP by 3:00 p.m., March 28 to the State Department by |
March 30 | 12:30-2:30 p.m., Benoît Pelopidas, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and Robert Norris, National Resources Defense Council, "The Oracles of Proliferation." George Washington University, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St., NW, Washington. RSVP by |
March 31 | 12:15-1:30 p.m., Steve Fetter, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "Nuclear Policy in the Obama Administration." University of Maryland, 1107 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD. |
March 31 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits an annual report to Congress on its plutonium "pit" production plan (Senate Report 108-105, p. 110). |
March | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a draft supplemental environmental impact statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
March | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complexat Oak Ridge, TN. |
March or April | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Thomas Countryman to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation (estimate). 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org. |
March or April | U.S. Air Force test launches a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (tentative). Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. |
March or April | Missile Defense Agency conducts a test of the Airborne Laser (possible; has been delayed several times). Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Sea Range off San Nicolas Island, CA. |
March or April | Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress a National Intelligence Estimate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty(classified). |
March or April | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Risk-Based Approaches for Securing the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex. |
April 1 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2011 ends. Geneva. |
April 3-6 | Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, DC Days. Equality Center, 1640 Rhode Island Ave,, NW; Washington (April 3), and Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, 322 Fourth St., NE, Washington (April 4-6). Register online. |
April 4 | 5:00-6:30 p.m., George Quester and Maurice Shapiro, George Washington University, "The Last Time We Were at Zero." George Washington University, 1957 E St., NW, Lindner Family Commons, Sixth Floor, Washington. RSVP online. |
April 4-6 | PONI (Project on Nuclear Issues) spring conference. J.W. Marriott, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas, NV. Registration is now closed. |
Week of April 4 | House and Senate floor action on a conference report on the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, H.R. 1 (possible, but may be delayed). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. |
Week of April 4 or 11 | House Budget Committee, markup of the budget resolution for fiscal year 2012 (estimate). 210 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Video and audio webcast on the committee website. |
April 4-22 | U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations. |
April 5 | Second anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech on nuclear weapons. |
April 5 | Director of National Intelligence, with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, submits to Congress a report on the threat from dirty bombs (Public Law 111-259, Sec. 344). |
April 6 or later | United States and Russia resume on-site inspections of each other's nuclear weapons facilities under the New START Treaty. |
April 7 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council; Ariel Cohen, Heritage Foundation; and Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, "Next Steps in Iran Sanctions: Targeting the Choke Points." Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Washington. RSVP online. Video webcast on the Heritage website. |
April 8-10 | Global Zero hosts GZ|DC 2Ø11, a convention that includes policy negotiation seminars and advocacy, media, and campaigning workshops. George Washington University, Washington, DC. Registeronline. |
April 9 | National Day of Nuclear Technology. Iran. |
April 11 | Time TBA, screening of Hibakusha, Our Life to Live. George Fox University, Newberg, OR. |
April 12 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Gary Samore, National Security Council, "Iran: U.S. Policy Options." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
April 12 | Director of National Intelligence submits an annual report to Congress on Iran's capability to produce nuclear weapons (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367 note). |
April 13 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., James Miller, Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, "Nukes, Missile Defense, and U.S. Security." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
April 13-15 | Biological Weapons Convention preparatory meeting for the review conference (Dec. 5-22, 2011). Geneva. |
April 14 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Rep. Michael Turner (OH), "HASC Perspectives on Strategic Issues." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
April 14 | 7:00-8:30 p.m., Avner Cohen, Monterey Institute, book discussion of The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb. University of California, I-House Great Hall, San Diego, CA. RSVP online. |
April 14-15 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a NATO foreign ministers meeting. Berlin. |
April 15 | President Obama submits an annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT or Moscow Treaty), (Treaty Document 107-8, Sec. 2(2)). |
April 15 | State Department submits an annual report to Congress on arms control compliance (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2593a). Previous reports are posted on the State Department website. |
April 16-May 1 | House and Senate spring recess. |
April 18 | Passover begins at sundown. Through April 26. |
April 18-25 | Nevada Desert Experience, "Sacred Peace Walk," commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Las Vegas, NV, to the Nevada National Security Site. Register online. |
April 22 | 6:45 a.m., Ecumenical Peace Institute and Livermore Conversion Project, worship service and witness. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Patterson Pass Rd. and Vasco Rd., Livermore, CA. |
April 22 | Good Friday. |
April 24 | Easter. |
April 26 | Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, releases his memoir, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. |
April 26 | 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Prypiat, Soviet Union, now Ukraine. |
April 30 | 12:30-2:00 p.m., Benoît Pelopidas, Monterey Institute; Robert Norris, Natural Resources Defense Council; and Leonard Spector, Monterey Institute, "The Oracles of Proliferation." George Washington University, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St., NW, Washington. RSVP by |
April | Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Madelyn Creedon to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
April | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a draft environmental impact statement on the continued operation of the Nevada National Security Site. |
April or May | President Obama submits the protocols to the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty, or Treaty of Pelindaba, and the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, or Treaty of Rarotonga, to the Senate for ratification (possible). |
April or May | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. |
April or May | Iran resumes talks on its nuclear program, with China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States, lead by Saeed Jalili, Iran's nuclear negotiator, and Catherine Ashton, European Union's foreign policy chief (possible). Location TBA. |
April or May | Iranian government sponsors a second annual conference on "International Disarmament and Security" (possible). Tehran, Iran. Portions webcast on Iranian Press TV. |
May 1 | Defense Department submits an annual report to Congress on counterproliferation programs (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2751 note). Previous reports are posted on the Defense Department website. |
May 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2523) and a biennial Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Criteria and Assessment Report (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2522). |
May 2 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. Broadcast on CNBC and MSNBC, and webcast on POLITICO. |
May 2-6 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
May 3 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Linton Brooks, former Director, National Nuclear Security Administration, "Next Steps in U.S.-Russian Arms Control," and Frank Miller, former National Security Council staff, "U.S. Nuclear Deterrent Strategy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
May 4-5 | National Defense University, WMD Center Annual Symposium. National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington. |
May 5 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Peace Center, 300 S. Main St., Greenville, SC. Broadcast on Fox News. |
May 6 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, "Pakistan Nuclear Issues," and Thomas Joscelyn, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, "Sanctions on Iran." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
May 11 | 13th anniversary of the Indian nuclear test, "Pokhran II." Pokhran, Rajasthan, India. |
May 12 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Michael Pillsbury, Atlantic Council, "PAC Strategic Options," and Stephen Blank, Army War College, "Russia, The Once and Future Nuclear Power." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
May 14-22 | House of Representatives recess. |
May 16 | Conference on Disarmament second session for 2011 begins. Through July 1. Geneva. |
May 17-25 | World Council of Churches, International Ecumenical Peace Convocation. Kingston, Jamaica. |
May 18 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council, "U.S. Strategic Options in the Persian Gulf." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
May 20 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Gen. Tom McInerney, former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, and Clare Lopez, The Intelligence Summit, "Iran and Terrorism: Material Support from Kohobar Towers to 9/11 and Beyond." Part of theNDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
May 21-28 | Uranium Film Festival, screening of Hibakusha: Our Life to Live. Parque das Ruinas, Rio de Janeiro. |
May 22-24 | American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington. |
May 24 | New York special election to replace former Rep. Chris Lee (NY-26). |
May 24-26 | President Obama visits the United Kingdom. |
May 25 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Bruce Klingner, Heritage Foundation, "North Korean Denuclearization," and Christopher Ford, Hudson Center, "Verification of Nuclear Agreements, Proliferation, and Arms Control." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
May 26 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Gen. James Cartwright, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Strategic U.S. Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
May 26-27 | President Obama attends the G-8 summit. Deauville, France. Extension of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction is on the agenda. |
May 27-30 | House of Representatives Memorial Day recess. |
May 27-30 | NATO Parliamentary Assembly spring session. Varna, Bulgaria. |
May 28-June 5 | Senate Memorial Day recess. |
May 30 | Memorial Day (holiday). |
May | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision for the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, TN. |
May or June | House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. 2362-B Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast. |
May or June | House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic forces, markup of its portion of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Room TBA, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website depending on room location. |
May or June | House Armed Services Committee, markup of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website. |
May or June | Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic forces, markup of its portion of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast onCapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
May or June | Senate Armed Services Committee, markup of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
May or June | Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Vice President Xi Jinping. Beijing. |
June 1 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Maj. Gen. Robert Smolen (retired), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Sustaining the Nuclear Deterrent Enterprise." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 1 | 15th anniversary of Ukraine's removal of the last former Soviet strategic nuclear warheads to Russia. |
June 2 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Rear Adm. Terry Benedict, Director, Strategic Systems Program (Navy), "The Trident and its Contribution to Deterrence." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 2-9 | Coalition for Peace Action, screening of Hibakusha: Our Life to Live. Cultural Centre Matilha, Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
June 3 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Gen. Larry Welch (retired), former Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, "Sustaining the Nuclear Deterrent." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 4-12 | House of Representatives recess. |
June 6-10 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
June 7 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Manchester, NH. Broadcast on CNN. |
June 7 | 30th anniversary of Israel's destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. |
June 8-10 | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "Monitoring Science and Technology" international scientific conference. Vienna, Austria. |
June 9 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Malcolm O'Neill, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, "Missile Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 10 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Harvey, Principal Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for NCB Defense Programs, "Moving Ahead on America's Nuclear Security." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 22 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, Commander, Global Strike Command, U.S. Air Force, "Global Strike Command, Deterrence, and U.S. Strategic Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 24 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Uzi Rubin , former Israeli Ministry of Defense, "Missile Defense and Missile Threats: Middle East Developments." Part of theNDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 25-July 5 | House of Representatives Independence Day recess. |
June 28 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Steve Henry, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters, "Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Defense." Part of theNDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
June 29-30 | Partnership for Global Security, Biosecurity Conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington. |
June | Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
June | Obama administration completes a plan to reorganize trade and export agencies. |
June | Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a NATO defense ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Discussion of the NATO Deterrence and Defense Posture Review is on the agenda. |
June | Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a NATO- Russia Councildefense ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Missile defense cooperation is on the agenda. |
June | China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States hold a second nuclear powers conference to discuss nuclear weapons verification and transparency cooperation. Paris. |
June | Nuclear Suppliers Group plenary meeting (estimate). Location TBA. |
June | Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism annual meeting (estimate). Seoul, South Korea. |
June | Los Alamos National Laboratory director Mike Anastasio retires. |
June | Russian Navy test launches the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile from the Yury Dolgoruky submarine (tentative). White Sea, Russia. |
June or July | Senate floor action on the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (possible). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN2. |
Summer | National Academy of Sciences reports to the Defense Department and to Congress on boost-phase missile defense (estimate) (Public Law 110-417, Sec. 232, date amended by Public Law 111-84, Sec. 239). |
July 1 | Conference on Disarmament second session for 2011 ends. Geneva. |
July 2-10 | Senate Independence Day recess. |
July 4 | Independence Day (holiday). |
July 8 | 15th anniversary of an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. The Hague, Netherlands. |
July 12 | California special election to replace former Rep. Jane Harman (CA-36). |
July 13 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Rear Adm. Stewart O'Bryan, Commander, Navy Air and Missile Defense Command, "Integrated Navy Air and Missile Defense." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
July 14 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL), "Senate Outlook on Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July 16-24 | House of Representatives recess. |
July 31 | 20th anniversary of the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty(START I) by President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, reducing the U.S. and Soviet Union from over 10,00 deployed strategic warheads each to 6,000 each. Moscow. |
July 31 | Ramadan begins at sundown. Through Aug. 30. |
July | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a final supplemental environmental impact statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
July or Aug. | Vice President Joe Biden visits China. |
Aug. 2 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2011 begins. Through Sept. 16. Geneva. |
Aug. 4 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Barry Blechman, Stimson Center, "Global Nuclear Zero: Prospects." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
Aug. 6 | Anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. |
Aug. 6-Sept. 5 | House and Senate summer recess. (House recess is through Sept. 6.) |
Aug. 9 | Anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. |
Aug. 11 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Broadcast on Fox News. |
Aug. 13 | Ames Straw Poll of Republican presidential candidates. Hilton Coliseum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. |
Aug. 29 | 20th anniversary of the closure of Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, the main Soviet nuclear test site. |
Aug. 29 | International Day Against Nuclear Tests. |
Aug. 31 | Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan. |
Sept. 1 | President Obama submits an annual Global Nuclear Security report to Congress on the security of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon material outside the United States (22 U.S. Code Sec. 3244 note). |
Sept. 5 | Labor Day (holiday). |
Week of Sept. 5 | Non-Aligned Movement summit. Belgrade, Serbia. |
Sept. 11 | 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
Sept. 12-16 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Sept. 14 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Foster, member, Strategic Posture Commission, "Maintaining and Modernizing the Nuclear Enterprise." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 16 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Peppi DeBiaso, Director, Office of Missile Defense Policy, Defense Department, "Missile Defense Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 16 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2011 ends. Geneva. |
Sept. 18-20 | Women's Action for New Directions and Women Legislators' Lobbyconference. Washington. |
Sept. 19-23 | International Atomic Energy Agency general conference. Vienna, Austria. |
Sept. 20 | ~10:00 a.m., President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly. United Nations (estimate). Broadcast on CNN, video webcast on theU.N. website, and may be video webcast on the White House website. |
Sept. 21 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Joseph DeTrani, Director, National Counterproliferation Center, "U.S. Proliferation Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 23 | 19th anniversary of the last U.S. nuclear weapon test, "Divider." Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
Sept. 24 | 15th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. United Nations. |
Sept. 24-Oct. 2 | House and Senate Rosh Hashanah recess. |
Sept. 26 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Sept. 27 | 20th anniversary of President George H.W. Bush's Presidential Nuclear Initiative to reduce unilaterally U.S. nuclear weapons, including cancellation of the MX rail-garrison and short-range attack missile (SRAM II) programs and the withdrawal of all remaining Army ground-based tactical nuclear weapons and Navy tactical nuclear weapons worldwide. He also ended the 24-hour alert status of B-1B and B-52 bombers. |
Sept. 28 | Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Through Sept. 30. |
Sept. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision for the supplemental environmental impact statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
Sept. | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program(estimate). |
Sept. | United Nations hosts a meeting for promoting the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. United Nations. |
Sept. | India test launches its new Agni V intercontinental ballistic missile (tentative). Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India. |
Fall | Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits Washington. |
Fall | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final environmental impact statement on the continued operation of the Nevada National Security Site. |
Fall | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress a review by the National Academy of Sciences of the national security laboratories (Public Law 111-84, Sec. 3131). |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 3-Nov. 1 | U.N. General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. |
Oct. 7 | Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Through Oct. 8. |
Oct. 7-10 | House and Senate Yom Kippur-Columbus Day recess. |
Oct. 9 | Fifth anniversary of North Korea's first nuclear test, near Kilchu, North Korea. |
Oct. 10 | Columbus Day (federal holiday). |
Oct. 11-12 | 25th anniversary of the Reykjavik Summit between President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on nuclear arms reductions. Reykjavik, Iceland. |
Oct. 14 | 5:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 a.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prizeannounced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 15-23 | House of Representatives recess. |
Oct. 18-20 | Arab Institute for Security Studies, "Laying the Grounds for 2012--Opportunities for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security." Dubai, United Arab Emirates. |
Oct. 22-30 | Senate recess. |
Oct. 24 | United Nations Day. |
Oct. | Republican presidential debate. Orlando, FL. Broadcast on Fox News. |
Nov. 3-4 | President Obama attends the G-20 summit. Cannes, France. |
Nov. 3-6 | Friends Committee on National Legislation lobby day and annual meeting. Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW, Washington. |
Nov. 5-13 | House of Representatives Veterans Day recess. (Senate Veterans Day recess has not been scheduled yet.) |
Nov. 7 | Eid Al-Adha. |
Nov. 8 | U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial races in Kentucky and Mississippi and numerous mayoral races. |
Nov. 11 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation foreign ministers meeting. Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu. |
Nov. 11 | Veterans Day (federal holiday). |
Nov. 12-13 | President Obama hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu. |
Nov. 17-18 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Nov. 19 | 15th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. Vienna, Austria. |
Nov. 19-28 | House of Representatives Thanksgiving recess. (Senate Thanksgiving recess has not been scheduled yet.) |
Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving (holiday). |
Nov. 26 | 20th anniversary of the last British nuclear weapon test, "Bristol." Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands. |
Nov. | NATO Parliamentary Assembly annual session. Location TBA. |
Dec. 4 | Russian Duma elections. |
Dec. 5-22 | Biological Weapons Convention review conference. Geneva |
Dec. 8 | Congress adjourns (tentative). |
Dec. 12 | 20th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Public Law 102-228, Title II). |
Dec. 13 | 10th anniversary of President George W. Bush's announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
Dec. 20 | Hanukkah begins at sundown. Through Dec. 28. |
Dec. 22 | Anniversary of the ratification of the New START Treaty by the Senate on a vote of 71 to 26. |
Dec. 25 | Christmas (holiday) |
Dec. 26 | Christmas observed (federal holiday). |
Dec. or Jan. | NATO and Russia conduct a joint theater anti-missile defense exercise. Location(s) TBA, Europe. |
TBA | President Obama visits Pakistan. |
TBA | Defense Secretary Robert Gates retires. |
TBA | National Nuclear Security Administration issues additional record(s) of decision for the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
TBA | North Korean Sanctions Committee meeting of the U.N. Security Council. United Nations. |
TBA | Non-Aligned Movement's second summit meeting for 2011. Jakarta, Indonesia. |
TBA | Indonesian parliament ratifies the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Jakarta, Indonesia. |
2012 | |
Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
Jan. 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits an annual report to Congress on the status of nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting programs in Russia and other countries (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2563). |
Jan. 1 | U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon begins a second five-year term (estimate). |
Jan. 2 | New Year's Day observed (federal holiday). |
Jan. 3 | Congress convenes (estimate). |
Jan. 4 | Fifth anniversary of "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn in the Wall Street Journal. |
Jan. 16 | Iowa Democratic and Republican presidential caucuses (estimate). |
Jan. 16 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2012 begins (estimate). Through March 23. Geneva. |
Jan. 16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
Jan. 24 | New Hampshire Democratic and Republic presidential primary (estimate). |
Jan. 28 | South Carolina Democratic and Republican presidential primary (estimate). |
Jan. 29 | 10th anniversary of President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. |
Jan. 30 | Defense Department submits an annual report to Congress on the threat posed to the United States by weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367). |
Jan. 31 | Florida Democratic and Republican presidential primary (estimate). |
Jan. 31 | President Obama submits an annual report to Congress on a plan to secure nuclear weapons, material, and expertise in the former Soviet Union (22 U.S. Code Sec. 5952 note). The report is usually included as an appendix in the annual report due on Feb. 15 to Congress on how the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program can contribute to implementing the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT or Moscow Treaty) and to securing Russian nuclear weapons and material (Treaty Document 107-8, Sec. 2(1)). |
Jan. 31 | President Obama submits an annual report to the Senate on the implementation of the New START Treaty (New START Treaty,Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(10)). |
Late Jan. or early Feb. | 9:00 p.m. EST, President Obama gives the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. House Chamber, Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN, broadcast on other networks, and video webcast on the White House website. |
Jan.-March | Missile Defense Agency conducts a Ground-Based Interceptor test for the missile defense system. Reagan Test Site, Marshall Islands, andVandenberg Air Force Base, CA (estimate). |
Feb. 1 | Director of National Intelligence submits an annual report to Congress on the acquisition by foreign countries of technology for the development or production of weapons of mass destruction (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2366). Previous reports are posted on the Director of National Intelligence website. |
Feb. 5 | President Obama submits an annual report to the Senate on the status of negotiations with Russia on tactical nuclear weapons (New START Treaty, Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(12)(B)). |
Feb. 6 | ~10:30 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget request to Congress. Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website. |
Feb. 6 | ~1:30 p.m., Energy Secretary Steven Chu presents the Energy Department budget. Forrestal Building, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington. Posted on the Energy Department website. |
Feb. 6 | Defense Department and Energy Department submit to Congress an updated, annual 10-year plan for the nuclear weapons stockpile, nuclear weapons complex, and delivery platforms (Public Law 111-84, Sec. 1251). |
Feb. 7 | "Super Tuesday," with Democratic and Republican presidential caucuses and primaries in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah (estimates). |
Feb. 11 | Louisiana Democratic and Republican presidential primary. |
Feb. 14 | District of Columbia (estimate), Maryland, and Virginia Democratic and Republican presidential primaries. |
Feb. 15 | President Obama submits an annual report to Congress on how theNunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program can contribute to implementing the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT or Moscow Treaty), and to securing Russian nuclear weapons and material (Treaty Document 107-8, Sec. 2(1)). |
Feb. 15 | Defense Department submits an annual report to Congress on the effectiveness of the ballistic missile defense system (10 U.S. Code Sec. 2431 note). |
Feb. 15 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits an annual report to Congress on the mixed oxide (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2566). |
Feb. 18 | Nevada Republican presidential caucuses. Note: Presidential caucuses and primaries after the Nevada caucus are not listed. |
Feb. 20 | Presidents Day (federal holiday). |
Feb. 22 | Fifth anniversary of the Defense Department's cancellation of the "Divine Strake" nuclear test simulation, using conventional explosives. Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
March 1 | Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the military power of China (10 U.S. Code Sec. 113 note). Previous reports are posted on the Defense Department website. |
March 23 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2012 ends (estimate). Geneva. |
March 23-26 | Ecumenical Advocacy Days. Doubletree Crystal City-National Airport Hotel, Arlington, VA (March 23-25), and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., NE, Washington (March 26). |
March 31 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits an annual report to Congress on its plutonium "pit" production plan Senate Report 108-105, p. 110. |
March | Russian presidential election. |
March-April | U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations. |
Spring | President Obama hosts a NATO summit. City TBA, United States. Adoption of the NATO Deterrence and Defense Posture Review is on the agenda. |
April | President Obama attends the Second Nuclear Security Summit(estimate). Seoul, South Korea. |
TBA | U.N. Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Location TBA. |
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