Nuclear Calendar -- August 30, 2010 (FCNL)
August 30, 2010 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation |
July 31-Sept. 13 | House of Representatives August and Rosh Hashanah recess. |
Aug. 7-Sept. 12 | Senate August and Rosh Hashanah recess. |
Aug. 28-31 | Wu Dawei, Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, meets with Japanese officials on the restart of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program. Tokyo. |
Week of Aug. 30 | Continued showing of the film Countdown to Zero in Fayetteville, AR; Little Rock, AR; Tucson, AZ; and El Paso, TX. Tickets available online. |
Aug. 31 | Noon-2:00 p.m., Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE University, Spain. "Thirty Years After the Iran-Iraq War: The Lessons of Counterproliferation and WMD Deployment." Monterey Institute, CNS Seminar Room (D-100), 400 Pacific St., Monterey, CA. |
Aug. 31 | 2:00-3:30 p.m., Patrick Morgan, University of California, Irvine; Victor Cha, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Robert Carlin, National Committee on North Korea; and Jofi Joseph, State Department, "North Korea and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella: Extended Deterrence in East Asia." Sponsored by CSIS and the National Committee on North Korea. At CSIS, 1800 K St., NW, B1 Conference Room, Washington. RSVP to D. Alex Bartlett by |
Aug. 31 | 2:00-3:30 p.m., Michael Green, Georgetown University; Gordon Flake, Mansfield Foundation; and Bruce Klinger, Heritage Foundation, "Impact of Carter's and Kim's Trips on the North Korean Crisis." Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Washington. RSVP online. Webcast on theHeritage Foundation website. |
Sept. 1 | 5:00-7:00 p.m., Kazakhstani Embassy and Global Green USA, reception for the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, with remarks by Erlan Idrissov, Kazakhstani Ambassador, and Paul Walker, Global Green USA. At the University Club of Washington, DC, University Hall, 1135 16th St., NW, Washington. RSVPs are closed. |
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. 1 | Director of National Intelligence submits a biennial report to Congress on nuclear aspirations of non-state entities and nuclear weapons in countries not party to the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (Public Law 111-84, Sec. 1055). |
Sept. 3 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Colorado Springs, CO; Tallahassee, FL; Columbia, SC; Richmond, VA; and Montpelier, VT. Tickets available online. |
Sept. 6 | Labor Day (holiday). |
Sept. 7 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Daniel Poneman, Deputy Energy Secretary, conversation on national security and international affairs. Stimson Center, 1111 19th St., NW, 12th Floor, Washington. RSVP by |
Sept. 7 | 7:00 p.m., Ann Suellentrop, Kansas City Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Jay Coghlan, NukeWatch New Mexico, "Kansas City: Resist the First New Nuclear Weapons Plant in 32 Years." At All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO. |
Sept. 8 | 10:00 a.m., National Nuclear Security Administration, groundbreaking ceremony for the new Kansas City Plant. Kansas City, MO. |
Sept. 8 | 10:00 a.m., Kansas City Physicians for Social Responsibility and PeaceWorks Kansas City, civil resistance at the groundbreaking of the new Kansas City Plant. Missouri Highway 150 and Botts Rd., Kansas City, MO. |
Sept. 8 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Asbury Park, NJ. Tickets available online. |
Sept. 8 | Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Through Sept. 10. |
Sept. 9 | 12:15-1:30 p.m., Joan Rohlfing, Nuclear Threat Initiative, "Nuclear Dangers: A Strange Turn of History." University of Maryland, 1107 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD. |
Sept. 10 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Tempe, AZ; Columbus, OH; and Nashville, TN. Tickets available online. |
Sept. 11 | Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
Sept. 13 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Gen. Kevin Chilton, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, "Nuclear Deterrence, Arms Control, Missile Defense, and Defense Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by Sept. 11 to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 13 | Senate returns from recess. |
Sept. 13 | 7:00-9:00 p.m., Sen. Richard Lugar (IN), "America and the New Nuclear Strategy." George Washington University, Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st St., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Sept. 13 | Federal agencies submit their initial budgets for fiscal year 2012 to the Office of Management and Budget. (Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 7.) |
Sept. 13-17 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Week of Sept. 13 | Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, markup of the defense appropriations bill (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
Week of Sept. 13 | Senate Appropriations Committee, markup of the defense appropriations bill (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
Sept. 14 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Peppi DeBiaso, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, "Missile Defense Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by Sept. 10 to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 14 | Noon-2:00 p.m., Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University; Robert Litwak, Wilson Center; and Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations, "Deterring a Nuclear Iran: Can It Be Done?" Wilson Center, Fifth Floor Conference Room, Regan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online. Webcast on the Wilson Center website. |
Sept. 14 | 1:30-3:30 p.m., Mark Gunzinger, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), "Sustaining America’s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike." Sponsored by CSBA. 2212 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. RSVP to CSBA by |
Sept. 14 | House of Representatives returns from recess. |
Sept. 14 | 11:55 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Sept. 15, United for Peace and Justice Disarmament Working Group, protest against the launch of an Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. Vandenberg Air Force Base, front gate, north of Lompoc, CA. |
Sept. 15 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Matthew Bunn, Harvard University, "Corruption: A Central Underappreciated Factor in Nuclear Proliferation." MIT, E40 496, Lucien Pye Conference Room, Cambridge, MA. |
Sept. 15 | Time TBA, U.S. Air Force test launches a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. From Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, toward Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. |
Sept. 15 or 16 | Time TBA, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, markup of the resolution of ratification for the New START Treaty (tentative). Room TBA, Capitol Hill, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
Sept. 16 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Foster, member, Strategic Posture Commission, "Maintaining and Modernizing the Nuclear Empire." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by Sept. 14 to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 17 | Due date for comments to the National Nuclear Security Administration on its intent to do a supplemental environmental impact status for surplus plutonium disposition. Comments can be submitted by email to |
Sept. 17 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Fort Wayne, IN, and Burlington, VT. Tickets available online. |
Sept. 17 | Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Through Sept. 18. |
Sept. 17-20 | House of Representatives Yom Kippur recess. |
Sept. 20 | City of Albuquerque City Council votes on a resolution by Councillor Rey Garduno calling for an increase in funding for the Pantex Plant, TX, to dismantle additional nuclear weapons at the Kirtland Air Force Base, NM. |
Sept. 20-24 | 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Bruce MacDonald, U.S. Institute of Peace, and other speakers, "21st Century Issues in Strategic Arms Control and Nuclear Nonproliferation," U.S. Institute of Peace, 1200 17th St., NW, Suite 200, Washington. A free, non-specialist overview of strategic arms control and nuclear nonproliferation policy issues. Apply online. For information, contact Brian Rose by |
Sept. 20-24 | International Atomic Energy Agency annual general conference. Vienna, Austria |
Sept. 21 | International Day of Peace. |
Sept. 21-22 | Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) fall conference, Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, United Kingdom. Due date for registration for non-U.K. citizens is past. |
Sept. 22 | 10:00 a.m., Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, hearing on "Nuclear Terrorism: Strengthening Our Domestic Defenses," 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on thecommittee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org. |
Sept. 22 | 7:30 p.m., screening of the film Countdown to Zero, followed by a discussion. Sponsored by the Greenwich Forum on War and Peace. At the Avon Theatre, 272 Bedford St., Stamford, CT. |
Sept. 22 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Stamford, CT. Tickets availableonline. |
Sept. 23 | ~10:00 a.m. (estimate), President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly. United Nations. Broadcast on CNN, video webcast on the White House website, and video webcast on the U.N. website. |
Sept. 23 | 12:15-1:30 p.m., Peter Scoblic, professional staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "A New START: The Ratification Process." University of Maryland, 1107 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD. |
Sept. 23 | ~4:00 p.m. (estimate), Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses theU.N. General Assembly. United Nations. May be broadcast on CNN. Video webcast on Iranian Press TV and on the U.N. website. |
Sept. 24 | 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Conference on Disarmament final meeting of 2010, to be held at the ministerial level and hosted by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Conference Room 2, North Lawn Building, United Nations. A news conference following the meeting may be webcast on the U.N. website. |
Sept. 24 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Fort Collins, CO; Columbia, MO; Springfield, MO; Greenville, SC; and San Antonio, TX. Tickets availableonline. |
Sept. 26 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Nevada City, CA. Tickets available online. |
Sept. 27 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Week of Sept. 27 | House and Senate floor action on a continuing resolution through Nov. 15 or the end of Jan. for all remaining appropriations bills, including the energy and water appropriations bill (estimate). Broadcast, video webcast, and audio webcast on C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. |
Sept. | House Appropriations Committee, markups of the defense appropriations bill; energy and water appropriations bill; and State, foreign operations appropriations bill (estimates). 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website. |
Sept. | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the Robert Mikulak to be the representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (estimate). 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org. |
Sept. | Senate floor action on the defense authorization bill, S. 3454, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (possible). Broadcast, video webcast, and audio webcast on C-SPAN2. |
Sept. | Senate floor action on the energy and water appropriations bill, S. 3635, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (possible). Broadcast, video webcast, and audio webcast on C-SPAN2. |
Sept. | State Department issues its Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review(tentative). |
Sept. | Missile Defense Agency flight tests the Airborne Laser (possible). Edwards Air Force Base, CA, and Western Sea Range off the coast of California. |
Sept. | Russian Navy test launches a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile from the submarine Dmitri Donskoy (possible). White Sea, Russia. |
Sept. | India test launches its Agni 2 medium range ballistic missile (possible). Wheeler Island Missile Test Facility, Orissa, India. |
Sept. | Iran resumes talks on its nuclear program, with China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States. Location TBA, Turkey (possible). |
Sept. or Week of Oct. 4 | Senate floor action on the New START Treaty (possible). Broadcast, video webcast, and audio webcast on C-SPAN2. |
Sept. or Week of Oct. 4 | Senate floor action on the nominations of Anne Harrington to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, and Robert Mikulak to be the representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (estimates). |
Fall | Defense Department and the Director of National Intelligence submit a Space Posture Review to Congress (Public Law 110-417, Sec. 913) (estimate). |
Fall | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, TN. |
Fall | Director of National Intelligence completes a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program (estimate) (classified). |
Fall | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (estimate). |
Fall | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Risk-Based Approaches for Securing the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (estimate). |
Fall | Indonesian parliament ratifies the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (estimate). Jakarta, Indonesia. |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 1 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Tulsa, OK. Tickets availableonline. |
Oct. 2 | 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., Trinity Site open house. Alamogordo, NM. |
Oct. 2-9 | Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, "Keep Space for Peace Week." |
Week of Oct. 4 | House and Senate floor action on the conference report for the defense authorization bill, H.R. 5136 and S. 3454, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (possible). |
Week of Oct. 4 | Nuclear Security Summit sherpas meeting. Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Oct. 4-Nov. 2 | U.N. General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. |
Oct. 8 | 5:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 a.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 9-Nov. 14 | House and Senate recess for the elections. |
Oct. 10 | 4:30 p.m., screening of Hibakusha, Our Life to Live. Cape Ann Community Cinema, 21 Main St., Second Floor, Gloucester, MA. |
Oct. 11 | Columbus Day (federal holiday). |
Oct. 13 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Norfolk, VA. Tickets availableonline. |
Oct. 13-14 | South Korea hosts a Proliferation Security Initiative exercise off Busan, South Korea. |
Oct. 18 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Portsmouth, NH. Tickets available online. |
Oct. 19-21 | Arab Institute for Security Studies, "Beyond the 2010 Review Conference: Prospects for Nuclear Non-Proliferation." Amman, Jordan. For information, contact the Arab Institute for Security Studies by |
Oct. 24 | United Nations Day. |
Oct. 26 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Graham Allison, Harvard University, "Nuclear Terrorism: Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and the Fragility of the Global Nuclear Order," MIT, E40 496, Lucien Pye Conference Room, Cambridge, MA. |
Oct. 27 | Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) capstone conference. U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE. |
Oct. 29 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Mesilla, NM. Tickets availableonline. |
Oct. | National Nuclear Security Administration, issues the draft environmental impact statement on the continued operation of the Nevada Test Site. |
Oct. or Nov. | British government releases its Strategic Defense and Security Review. |
Oct. or Nov. | Nuclear Suppliers Group consultative group meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Nov. 2 | U.S. Election Day. |
Nov. 2-3 | U.S. Strategic Command, "Conducting Military Space Operations--Advancing from Today to Tomorrow." Qwest Center, 455 N. 10th St., Omaha, NE. |
Nov. 4 | Additional release of the film Countdown to Zero in Jacksonville, FL. Tickets available online. |
Week of Nov. 8 | President Obama visits India (estimate). |
Nov. 10-11 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperationforeign ministers meeting. Yokohama, Japan. |
Nov. 11 | 12:15-1:30 p.m., Avner Cohen, Monterey Institute, "The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb." University of Maryland, 1107 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD. |
Nov. 11 | Veterans Day (federal holiday). |
Nov. 11-12 | President Obama attends the G-20 summit. Seoul, South Korea. |
Nov. 11-15 | Friends Committee on National Legislation annual meeting and lobby day. Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW, Washington (Nov. 11-14), and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., NE, Washington (Nov. 15). |
Nov. 12-16 | NATO Parliamentary Assembly annual session. Warsaw, Poland. |
Nov. 13-14 | President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Yokohama, Japan. |
Nov. 15 | House and Senate return for a lame-duck session of Congress. |
Nov. 19-20 | President Obama attends the NATO summit, which will adopt a new Strategic Concept. Lisbon, Portugal. |
Nov. 20-28 | House and Senate Thanksgiving recess. |
Nov. 25 | Thanksgiving (holiday). |
Nov. 29-Dec. 3 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands. |
Nov. 29-? | House and Senate continue the lame-duck session of Congress. |
Nov. | Defense Department and other federal agencies conduct a Nuclear Weapon Accident Incident Exercise (NUWAIX), to respond to a U.S nuclear weapon incident. Location TBA. |
Nov. | U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Annual Joint Conference on Disarmament and Nonproliferation. Jeju Island, South Korea. |
Dec. 1 | President's Fiscal Commission issues its recommendations. |
Dec. 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits an annual, classified report to Congress on the current and projected (1) number of nuclear weapons of each type in the active and reserve stockpiles, (2) strategic rationale for each type, and (3) past and projected future total direct lifecycle cost of each type (House Report 110-921, p. 125). |
Dec. 2 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress a report by the National Academy of Sciences on the national security and extended deterrence value of the B61 nuclear bomb (House Report 111-278, p. 127). |
Dec. 2-3 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Dec. 6-10 | Biological Weapons Convention annual meeting. Geneva. |
Dec. 9-12 | Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, "Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World." New Delhi. |
Dec. 10 | 7:00 a.m. EST (1:00 p.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prize awarded. Oslo, Norway. |
Dec. 24 | Christmas observed (federal holiday). |
Dec. 25 | Christmas (holiday). |
Dec. 31 | New Year's Day observed (federal holiday). |
Dec. | House-Senate conference committee completes an omnibus appropriations bill, which includes the energy and water appropriations bill and other bills (possible). |
TBA | Senate floor vote on the nomination of Philip Coyle to be an Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (possible). (Coyle received a recess appointment in July through Jan. 3, 2011, but his regular nomination is still pending.) |
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 | 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. |
2011 | |
Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
Jan. 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress a report by theJASON Defense Advisory Group on the value of the planned B61-12 nuclear bomb (House Report 111-278, p. 127). |
Jan. 1 | 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). |
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. 4 | Congress convenes (estimate). |
Jan. 17 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2011 begins. Through March 25 (estimate). Geneva. |
Jan. 17 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
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 | 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 Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) 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)). |
Late Jan. or early Feb. | President Obama gives the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. House Chamber, Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast, video webcast, and audio webcast on C-SPAN, broadcast on other networks, and video webcast on the White House website. |
Jan.-March | Iran begins construction of a third uranium enrichment plant. Location unknown, Iran. |
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. 6 | 2:00 p.m., screening of Hibakusha, Our Life to Live. Japanese American National Museum, 369 E. First St., Los Angeles. |
Feb. 7 | 10:00 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. 7 | ~1:30 p.m. (estimate), 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. 15 | President Obama submits an annual report to Congress on how the Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) 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's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation 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. 19-27 | House and Senate Presidents Day recess (estimate). |
Feb. 21 | Presidents Day (federal holiday). |
Feb. 26-March 1 | J Street conference. Grand Hyatt Washington, 1000 H St., NW, Washington. |
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 theDefense Department website. |
March 1 | National Academy of Sciences reports to the Defense Department and to Congress on boost-phase missile defense (Public Law 110-417, Sec. 232, date amended by Public Law 111-84, Sec. 239). |
March 7-11 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
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 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). |
March 28-29 | Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. |
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 | India test launches its new Agni 5 intercontinental ballistic missile (tentative). Wheeler Island Missile Test Facility, Orissa, India. |
March or April | Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, DC Days. Location TBA, Washington. |
April 5 | Second anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech on nuclear weapons. |
April 9 | National Day of Nuclear Technology. Iran. |
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 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 | 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Missile Technology Control Regime. |
April 18 | Passover begins at sundown. Through April 26. |
April 22 | Good Friday. |
April 24 | Easter. |
April | U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations. |
April | Iranian government sponsors a second annual international conference on disarmament and nonproliferation. Tehran, Iran. Portions will be webcast on IranianPress 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 theDefense 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 2-6 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
May 17-25 | World Council of Churches, International Ecumenical Peace Convocation. Kingston, Jamaica. |
May 22-24 | American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington. |
May 30 | Memorial Day (holiday). |
May or June | NATO Parliamentary Assembly spring session. Location TBA. |
May or June | Nuclear Suppliers Group plenary meeting. Location TBA. |
June 6-10 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
June 8-10 | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, Monitoring Science and Technologyinternational scientific conference. Vienna, Austria. |
June | President Obama attends the G-8 summit. Nice, France. |
June | President Obama attends the G-20 summit. Location TBA, France. |
June | Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism annual meeting (estimate). Location TBA. |
July 4 | Independence Day (holiday). |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final environmental impact statement on the continued operation of the Nevada Test Site. |
Aug. 6 | Anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. |
Aug. 9 | Anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. |
Aug. 29 | International Day Against Nuclear Tests. |
Aug. | Biological Weapons Convention meeting of experts. Geneva. |
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). |
Sept. 11 | 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. 20 | ~10:00 a.m., President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly. United Nations (estimate). Broadcast on CNN, video webcast on the White House website, and video webcast on the U.N. website. |
Sept. 26 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Sept. 28 | Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Through Sept. 30. |
Sept. | United Nations hosts a meeting for promoting the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. United Nations. The concluding news conference may be video webcast on the United Nations website. |
Fall | Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, releases his memoir, Crawling Away from Armageddon. |
TBA | Defense Secretary Robert Gates retires from office. |
TBA | NATO Annual Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation. Location TBA, Norway. |
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