Nuclear Calendar -- June 26, 2012 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- June 26, 2012 | Friends Committee on National Legislation
June 26 | 1:30-4:30 p.m., Sen. Kelly Ayotte (NH); and six other speakers, "Sequestration and the Nation's Defense: Prospects and Perils." Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online or at (202) 797-6105. |
June 26 | ~2:00 p.m., House floor action on Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implementation and Safety of Maritime Navigation Act of 2012, H.R. 5889. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN. |
June 26 | 6:00-8:00 p.m., Gen. James Cartwright (retired), former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, "The Future DoD Budget / Trades That Could be Made." Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. At Marriott Residence Inn, 550 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, VA. RSVP online. |
June 27 | 10:00 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee, markup of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2013 (not yet introduced). 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
June 27 | 12:30-2:30 p.m., Sven-Eric Fikenscher, Goethe University; Bernd Kubbig, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Roberta Mulas, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Martin Senn, Innsbruck University, "Middle East Arms Control, Missile Proliferation and WMDFZ." Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Conference Room, Andromeda Tower, Donau-City Strasse 6, Floor 24, Vienna. RSVP online. |
June 27 | 1:00-2:30 p.m., Khammar Mrabit, International Atomic Energy Agency, "Nuclear Security: Why it Matters." International Peace Institute, 777 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor, Washington. RSVP by June 20 to Beatrice Agyarkoh by |
June 27 | 3:00 p.m., Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, hearing on "A bill to establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park," S. 3300, and on other bills, with five witnesses. 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
June 27 | 3:30 p.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on "The Creation and Implementation of the National Nuclear Security Administration [NNSA]," with Linton Brooks, former NNSA administrator; Bob Kuckuck, former director, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Eugene Aloise, Government Accountability Office. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
June 27-28 | PONI (Project on Nuclear Issues) summer conference at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino, 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, Santa Fe, NM. Registration and call for papers online. |
June 27-29 | State Department hosts a P5 (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and United States) nuclear weapons verification, transparency and confidence-building conference. Washington. |
June 28 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Linton Brooks, former Administrator, 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 Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
June 28 | 10:00 a.m., House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, hearing on the Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act, H.R. 5987, with witnesses TBA, and on other bills. 1324 Longworth House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
June 28 | 10:00-11:30 a.m., Richard Burt, Global Zero USA; Jan Lodal, Atlantic Council; and Joan Rohlfing, Nuclear Threat Initiative, "A Next Step in Nuclear Arms Control: Securing Fissile Materials." Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online or at (202) 797-6105. |
June 28 | Sanctions go into effect against any foreign country or company that purchases petroleum products from Iran (22 U.S. Code Sec. 8513a). |
June 28 | U.S. Navy and U.S. Strategic Command submit to Congress a report on the replacement of the Ohio-class ballistic submarine (Public Law 112-81, Sec. 242). |
June 28 | Energy Secretary submits to Congress a plan to prevent the proliferation of nuclear and radiological weapons (Public Law 112-81, Sec. 3122). |
June 28 | 25th anniversary of a chemical weapons attack on civilians at Sardasht, Iran by Iraq. |
June 29 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz (retired), Council on Foreign Relations, "Strategic Perspectives." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
June 29 | Noon-1:15 p.m., former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, "Addressing America's National Security Challenges." Sponsored by the Defense Forum Foundation. B-339 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Reservation by noon, June 28, by |
June 29 | Conference on Disarmament second part for 2012 ends. Geneva. |
June 30-July 8 | House and Senate Independence Day recess. |
July 3 | Iran continues negotiations on its nuclear program with the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany (P5+1) at the technical expert level. Istanbul. |
July 3-5 | Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and United States hold a Proliferation Security Initiative military exercise. Chitose Air Base, Japan. |
July 4 | Independence Day (holiday). |
July 6 | 50th anniversary of "Storax Sedan," an underground nuclear test conducted at the Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more U.S. residents than any other nuclear test and the Sedan Crater is the largest artificial crater in the United States. |
July 10 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Donald Cook, Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, "Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Sustainment." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 11 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Barry Blechman, Stimson Center, "Iran Security Challenges." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 11 | 8:45 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Hossein Mousavian, former head of the Iran Supreme National Security Council Foreign Relations Committee, and eleven other speakers, "The Changing Middle East: Implications for Regional and Global Politics." Sponsored by the EastWest Institute and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, Second Floor Ballroom, One United Nations Plaza, 44th St., New York. RSVP to Lisa Treiling by |
July 12 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Gen. Robert Kehler, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, "Nuclear Deterrence, Arms Control, Missile Defense and Defense Policy." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club. Reserve Officers Club, One Constitution Ave., NE, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 13 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Lt. Gen. Richard Formica, Commander, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, "Theater and Global Tiered Missile Defense." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 13 | 9:30 a.m.-Noon, Corey Hinderstein, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and Masao Senzaki, Yosuke Naoi and Kazuko Hamada, Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, "Japan, Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security: Cooperation for Regional Security in Asia." Sponsored by the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Threat Initiative and Nuclear National Security Administration. Washington Marriott Hotel, 1221 22nd St., NW, Washington. RSVP by June 29 by |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July 16-20 | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "Multilateral Verification, Collective Security: The Contribution of the CTBT." Vienna International Centre, Vienna. Course presented in person and webcast. RSVP online. |
July 16-20 | Biological Weapons Convention meeting of experts. Geneva. |
July 18 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., David Tractenberg, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, "Security Challenges for a New Administration." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 18 | 3:30-5:00 p.m., Penrose Albright, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "The Role of National Laboratories in U.S. National Security and Technological Innovation." Sponsored by the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Robinson Auditorium, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA. |
July 20 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Rear Adm. Terry Benedict, Director, Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs, "The Trident and Its Contribution to Deterrence." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 20 | Ramadan begins at sundown. Through Aug. 18. |
July 23-25 | 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Greg Koblentz, George Mason University and five other speakers, "Pandemics, Bioterrorism, and International Security." George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA. Register online. |
July 26 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., James Miller, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, "Nukes, Missile Defense and U.S. Security." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 30 | Conference on Disarmament third part for 2012 begins. Through Sept. 14. Geneva. |
July | House of Representatives floor action on the defense appropriations bill, H.R. 5856 (estimate). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN. |
July | Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, markup of the defense appropriations bill (estimate). Room TBA, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July | Senate Appropriations Committee, markup of the defense appropriations bill (estimate). Room TBA, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July | Senate floor action on the defense authorization bill, S. 3254, which includes the nuclear weapons and nuclear nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2. |
July | Obama administration completes the Nuclear Posture Review Implementation Study (estimate). |
July | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC. |
July or Sept. | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Joseph Macmanus to be ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (estimate). 419 Dickson Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July or Sept. | President Obama submits to Congress a plan for the nuclear weapons stockpile, nuclear weapons complex, nuclear weapons delivery systems, and nuclear weapons command and control system (Public Law 112-81, Sec. 1043). (delayed; was due Feb. 13) |
July or Sept. | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual nuclear stockpile stewardship and management plan (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2523) and a biannual modernization and refurbishment plan for the nuclear security complex (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2523a) (delayed; was due May 1). |
Aug. 1 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Steve Henry, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters, "Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Defense." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
Aug. 2-9 | Japan Council Against A and H Bombs, World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. |
Aug. 3-6 | Nuclear Watch New Mexico; Occupy Santa Fe; Pax Christi New Mexico; and Veterans for Peace Santa Fe, "Nuke Free Now." Santa Fe, NM, and other locations. |
Aug. 4-Sept. 9 | House and Senate summer recess. |
Aug. 6 | Anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. |
Aug. 9 | Anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. |
Aug. 26-31 | Non-aligned Movement summit. Tehran, Iran. |
Aug. 27-30 | Republican National Convention. Tampa, FL. |
Aug. 27-30 | Kazakhstan Parliament, and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, "From a Nuclear Test Nan to a Nuclear-weapons-free World," international conference. Astana, Kazakhstan. For information, contact Alyn Ware by |
Aug. 29 | International Day Against Nuclear Tests. |
Aug. 30 | Time TBA, Mitt Romney gives his presidential acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Tampa, FL. Broadcast on most TV networks. |
Aug. | Biological Weapons Convention meeting of experts. Geneva. |
Sept. 1 | President Obama submits to Congress an annual Global Nuclear Security report on the security of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon material outside the United States (22 U.S. Code Sec. 3244 note). |
Sept. 1 | Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress a biennial report on nuclear aspirations of non-state entities and nuclear weapons in countries not party to the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2371). |
Sept. 3 | Labor Day (holiday). |
Sept. 3-6 | Democratic National Convention. Charlotte, NC. |
Sept. 6 | Time TBA, President Obama gives his presidential acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Charlotte, NC. Broadcast on most TV networks. |
Sept. 6-8 | Center for Energy and Security Studies, Moscow Nonproliferation Conference. Moscow. RSVP online. |
Sept. 10 | Federal departments submit their initial budget requests to the Office of Management and Budget for fiscal year 2014 (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 4. |
Sept. 10 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
Sept. 11 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Foster, former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Nukes, Missile Defense and U.S. Security." Part of the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online. |
Sept. 11 | Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
Sept. 14 | Conference on Disarmament third part for 2012 ends. Geneva. |
Sept. 15-18 | House of Representatives Rosh Hashanah recess. |
Sept. 16 | Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Through Sept. 18. |
Sept. 17-21 | International Atomic Energy Agency general conference. Vienna. |
Sept. 21 | International Day of Peace. Webcast on the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities website. |
Sept. 22-30 | House of Representatives Yom Kippur recess. |
Sept. 23 | 20th anniversary of the last U.S. nuclear test, "Operation Julin Divider." Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
Sept. 24 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
Sept. 25 | ~10:00 a.m., President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly (estimate). United Nations. Broadcast on CNN, webcast on the U.N. website and may be webcast on the White House website. |
Sept. 25 | Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Through Sept. 26. |
Sept. | Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Turkey and UAE) meeting of foreign ministers on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly. New York. |
Late Sept. | House and Senate floor action on a continuing resolution for the appropriations bills for fiscal year 2013 (estimate). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. |
Fall | National Academy of Sciences reports to the Defense Department and Congress on boost-phase missile defense (Public Law 110-417, Sec. 232, date amended by Public Law 111-84, Sec. 239) (delayed). |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 1 | 20th anniversary of Senate ratification of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on a vote of 93-6. The treaty reduced the U.S. and Soviet Union nuclear arsenals from over 10,000 deployed strategic warheads to 6,000 each. |
Oct. 1-31 | U.N. General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. |
Oct. 2 | 20th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear testing moratorium (Public Law 102-377, Sec. 507). |
Oct. 3 | Time TBA, first presidential debate. University of Denver. |
Oct. 6-13 | Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Keep Space for Peace Week. |
Oct. 6-Nov. 12 | House of Representatives election recess. (The Senate has not announced the dates for its election recess.) |
Oct. 8 | Columbus Day (federal holiday). |
Oct. 11 | Time TBA, vice presidential debate. Centre College, Danville, KY. |
Oct. 12 | 5:00 a.m. EDT (11 a.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 14-28 | 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
Oct. 16 | Time TBA, second presidential debate. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. |
Oct. 22 | Time TBA, third (and last) presidential debate. Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL. |
Oct. 24 | United Nations Day. |
Oct. 30 | National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers. |
Oct. | United Sates and Israel hold a joint missile defense exercise, "Austere Challenge 12." Israel and Germany. |
Oct. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
Oct. | Russian navy launches the Yury Dolgoruky, the first submarine to carry the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile. Severodvinsk (on the White Sea), Russia. |
Nov. 1 | Defense Department submits to Congress a report on the military power of the North Korea (Public Law 112-81, Sec. 1236). |
Nov. 1 | 60th anniversary of the "Ivy Mike" nuclear test, the first hydrogen bomb test. Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. |
Nov. 6 | U.S. Election Day. |
Nov. 6 | Kansas City, MO, vote on a citizen’s initiative to bar city financing for nuclear weapons facilities (tentative). |
Nov. 12 | Veterans Day observed (federal holiday). |
Nov. 12-23 | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "Around the Globe and Around the Clock: The Science and Technology of the CTBT." Vienna International Centre, Vienna. Course presented in person and webcast. RSVP online. |
Nov. 13 | Congress returns for a lame-duck session (estimate). |
Nov. 15-18 | Friends Committee on National Legislation lobby day (Nov. 16) and annual meeting (Nov. 15-18). Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW, Washington. Register online. |
Nov. 17-26 | House of Representatives Thanksgiving recess. (The Senate has not announced the dates for its Thanksgiving recess.) |
Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving (holiday). |
Nov. 26 | Office of Management and Budget returns amended budget requests to federal departments for fiscal year 2014, known as budget passbacks (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 4. |
Nov. 26-30 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands. |
Nov. 29 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Nov. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM. |
Dec. 7-10 | House of Representatives Hanukkah recess. |
Dec. 8 | 25th anniversary of the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty by President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Washington. |
Dec. 8 | Hanukkah begins at sundown. Through Dec. 16. |
Dec. 10-14 | Biological Weapons Convention annual meeting. Geneva. |
Dec. 19 | South Korean presidential election. |
Dec. 25 | Christmas (holiday). |
Dec. | Missile Defense Agency tests a Ground-based Interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, against an intermediate-range ballistic missile target launched from Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, Central Pacific Ocean. |
Dec. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for the site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
Dec. | Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction (tentative). Helsinki. |
TBA | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor. |
TBA | Russian navy test launches the Bulava ballistic missile from the submarine Alexander Nevsky. |
2013 | |
Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
Jan. 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on the status of nuclear materials protection, control and accounting programs in Russia and other countries (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2563). |
Jan. 2 | Office of Management and Budget imposes $109 billion in across-the-board cuts, or sequestration, in discretionary spending for fiscal year 2013, including $55 billion in defense spending, under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (27 U.S. Code Sec. 900) (possible). |
Jan. 8 | Congress convenes (estimate). |
Jan. 20 | Noon, President takes the oath of office. Capitol Building, Washington, (The inaugural address and parade will be on Jan. 21.) |
Jan. 21 | Noon, Presidential inaugural address and parade. Washington. |
Jan. 21 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
Jan. 21 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2013 begins (estimate). Through March 29. Geneva. |
Jan. 30 | Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367). |
Jan. 31 | President submits to Congress an annual report on a plan to secure nuclear weapons, material and expertise in the former Soviet Union (22 U.S. Code Sec. 5952 note). |
Jan. 31 | President submits to the Senate an annual report 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 gives the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast, video webcast and audio webcast on C-SPAN, broadcast on other networks and video webcast on the White House website. |
Feb. 1 | Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress an annual report 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. 4 | ~11:00 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget request to Congress (estimate). Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website. |
Feb. 4 | ~1:30 p.m., Energy Secretary presents the Energy Department budget (estimate). Energy Department, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington. Posted on the Energy Department website. |
Feb. 4 | 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. 5 | President submits to the Senate an annual report on the status of negotiations with Russia on tactical nuclear weapons (New START Treaty, Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(12)(B)). |
Feb. 15 | Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the effectiveness of the ballistic missile defense system (10 U.S. Code Sec. 2431 note). |
Feb. 15 | Missile Defense Agency submits to Congress an annual report on acquisition baselines (10 U.S. Code Sec. 225). |
Feb. 15 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on the mixed oxide (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2566). |
Feb. 18 | Presidents Day (federal holiday). |
Feb. 18 | U.S.-Russian "Megatons to Megawatts" agreement, managed by USEC, expires. |
Feb. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC. |
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 3-5 | American Israel Public Affairs Committee, annual policy conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington. |
March 4-8 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
March 6 | 10th anniversary of the ratification of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), or Moscow Treaty, by the Senate on a vote of 95-0. The treaty reduced the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals from 6,000 deployed strategic nuclear weapons to 2,200 each. |
March 16 | 25th anniversary of 5,000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attacks. Halabjah, Iraq. |
March 23 | 30th anniversary of President Reagan's "Star Wars" speech. |
March 25 | Passover begins at sundown. |
March 29 | Good Friday. |
March 29 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2013 ends (estimate). Geneva. |
March 31 | Easter. |
March 31 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on its plutonium "pit" production plan (Senate Report 108-105, p. 110). |
Spring | Norwegian government sponsors an international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. Oslo. |
April 5-8 | Ecumenical Advocacy Days. DoubleTree Crystal City-National Airport Hotel, Arlington, VA (April 5-7), and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., NE, Washington (April 8). |
April 8-9 | Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. |
April 9 | National Day of Nuclear Technology (date is an estimate). Iran. |
April 11 | 50th anniversary of the encyclical letter Pacem in Terris by Pope John XXIII, which called for an end to the nuclear arms race. |
April 12 | Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress an annual report on Iran's capability to produce nuclear weapons (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367 note). |
April 15 | State Department submits to Congress an annual report on arms control compliance (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2593a(a)). Previous reports are posted on the State Department website. |
April 22-May 3 | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) preparatory committee meeting for the 2015 review conference. Geneva. |
May 1 | Defense Department submits to Congress a biannual report 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 6-10 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
May 11 | 15th anniversary of the Indian nuclear test, "Pokhran II." Pokhran, Rajasthan, India. |
May 27 | Memorial Day (holiday). |
May 28 | 15th anniversary of Pakistan's first nuclear test. Chagai Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan. |
May-June | President attends the G-8 summit. City TBA, United Kingdom. |
June 1 | 25th anniversary of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty entering into force. |
June 3-7 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
June 10 | 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's commencement address at American University, where he called for a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. Washington. |
June 10 | 20th anniversary of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Colin Powell's commencement speech at Harvard University where he said, "And today, I can declare my hope, declare it from the bottom of my heart, that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place." |
June 24 | 65th anniversary of beginning of the Berlin Blockade. |
June | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "CTBT Science, Technology and Innovation 2013," international scientific conference. Vienna. |
June | Iranian presidential election. |
July 3 | 20th anniversary of President Clinton's announcement that he would extend the U.S. nuclear testing moratorium. |
July 4 | Independence Day (holiday). |
July 10 | Ramadan begins at sundown. |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July | U.S.-Russian umbrella agreement for the Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) Program expires. |
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