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February 2, 2015 

Feb. 2	11:30 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the fiscal year 2016 federal budget. Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website.
Feb. 2	3:45-5:15 p.m., Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and other Energy Department officials present the Energy Department's annual budget. Energy Department, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington. RSVP by 4:00 p.m., Jan. 27 to Diane Meck by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Posted on the Energy Department website.
Feb. 2	Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and Frank Rose, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, meet with Chinese officials as part of the U.S.-China Security Dialogue. Beijing.
Feb. 3	Noon-1:30 p.m., Gen. Robert Kehler (retired), U.S. Air Force, "The Enduring Role of U.S. Nuclear Weapons." Stanford University, CISAC Conference Room, Encina Hall Central, Second Floor, 616 Serra St., Palo Alto, CA. RSVP online.
Feb. 3	2:00-3:30 p.m. EST, Adam Steltzner, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Peter Schwartz, Salesforce.com; Gregory Benford, University of California, Irvine; and Paul Carroll, Ploughshares Fund, "Reinvent Nuclear Security - An Alternative Future for the National Labs." Online webinar sponsored by N Square. RSVPonline.
Feb. 3	4:00 p.m., Fordham University, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. Fordham University, Freeman Hall 103, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, NY.
Feb. 3	5:30-7:30 p.m., University of Washington, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. University of Washington, Thomson Hall Room 101, Seattle.
Feb. 3	6:00 p.m., Georgia Tech, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. Georgia Tech Student Center, 350 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta.
Feb. 3	6:30-8:30 p.m., University of Maryland, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. University of Maryland, 1212 Van Munching Hall (Tyser Auditorium), College Park, MD. RSVP online
Feb. 3	6:30-9:30 p.m., Catholic University, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. Catholic University, Hannan 106, Washington.
Feb. 3	6:30-8:30 p.m., University of California, Berkeley, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. University of California, Berkeley, 3106 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA. RSVP online.
Feb. 3	6:30-9:00 p.m., Middlebury Institute of International Studies, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. Middlebury Institute of International Studies, McCone Irvine Auditorium, Monterey, CA.
Feb. 3	7:00-9:00 p.m., Columbia University, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. Columbia University, Arledge Auditorium, NY.
Feb. 3	7:00 p.m., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1090 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL.
Feb. 4-5	Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and Frank Rose, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, attend the sixth annual P5 conference. London. The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations (April 27-May 22) is on the agenda.
Feb. 4	9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Ashton Carter to be Defense Secretary. G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Feb. 4	Noon-2:00 p.m., Gary Samore, Belfer Center; Shai Feldman, Brandeis University; Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow Center; and Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Princeton University, "And Then What? Imagining the Middle East if Nuclear Negotiations with Iran Fail." Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, Cambridge, MA.
Feb. 5	6:00-9:00 p.m., Harvard University, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. Harvard University, Starr Auditorium, Belfer Hall, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA.
Feb. 5	7:00-9:00 p.m., Georgetown University, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. Georgetown University, New South Film Screening Room, Washington.
Feb. 5	Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel attends a NATO defense ministers meeting. Brussels.
Feb. 5	Fourth anniversary of the entry into force of the New START Treaty. The treaty reduces the maximum number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons by the United States and Russia from 2,200 to 1,550 each.
Feb. 6	8:00-9:00 a.m., Adm. Cecil Haney, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, "America's Space Culture: Looking to 2020." Sponsored by the Air Force Association. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St. SE, Washington. RSVP online.
Feb. 7	6:30 p.m., University of Notre Dame, screening of The Man Who Saved the World. University of Notre Dame, Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, South Bend, IN. RSVP online.
Feb. 9	2:00 p.m., former Rep. Jim Slattery (KS), "A Visit to Tehran: Outlook for U.S.-Iran Relations." Atlantic Council, 12th Floor, 1030 15th St. NW, Washington. Registeronline.
Feb. 9	German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with President Obama to discuss Russia and other topics. White House, Washington.
Feb. 11	10:00 a.m.-noon, Ori Rabinowitz, author of Bargaining on Nuclear Tests: Washington and its Cold War Deals, and Ariane Tabatabai, Georgetown University, "Iran Nuclear Talks: Truths and Tall Tales from Tehran and Tel-Aviv." James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 1400 K St. NW, Suite 1225, Washington. RSVP by Feb. 9 online.
Feb. 11	12:30-2:00 p.m., Seyed Mousavian, Princeton University, "Golden Opportunity to Seal a Diplomatic Deal with Iran." Princeton University, 221 Nassau St., Second Floor Conference Room, Princeton, NJ.
Feb. 13	1:00-2:30 p.m., Or Rabinowitz, King's College London, "Nuclear Bargains Reviewed: Washington's Cold War Nuclear Deals and What They Mean for Iran." Wilson Center, Fifth Floor, Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Feb. 14	First anniversary of a canister of nuclear waste rupturing at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. More than 20 workers were contaminated and the facility has been closed since.
Feb. 14-22	House and Senate Presidents Day recesses. House recess goes through Feb. 23.
Feb. 15	Missile Defense Agency submits to Congress an annual accountability report on the Ballistic Missile Defense System (10 U.S. Code Sec. 225). Previous reports are posted on the Defense Department website.
Feb. 16	Presidents Day (federal holiday).
Feb. 17-20	ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums, annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit. Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert St. NW, Washington. Register online.
Feb. 24	10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, public meeting. Hilton at Mark Center, Birch Conference Room, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA. RSVP required.
Feb. 25	9:00-10:00 a.m., Michael Elliott, Deputy Director for Strategic Stability Plans and Policy Directorate, Joint Chiefs of Staff, "The Past and Future of the Nuclear Enterprise." Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. Register online.
Feb. 26	1:15-4:45 p.m., Jason Healey, Atlantic Council; and Edward You, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, "The Korean Peninsula Issues." Sponsored by ICAS Liberty Foundation. Room TBA, Capitol Hill, Washington. RSVP online.
Feb. 27	10:00-11:30 a.m., Tufts University, "Russia in the 21st Century: Military Readiness and Nuclear Capacity." Part of the Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Symposium. Tufts University, Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Ave., Medford MA.
Feb. 28 - March 1	Helen Caldicott Foundation, "The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction." At the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York. RSVP online.
March 1	Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the nuclear weapons stockpile of the United States (10 U.S. Code, Sec. 494).
March 1	Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on China's military and security developments (10 U.S. Code Sec. 113 note). Previous reports are posted on the Defense Department website.
March 1	15th anniversary of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
March 1-3	American Israel Public Affairs Committee, annual policy conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington.
March 2-6	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna. Nuclear safeguards and inspections in Iran are on the agenda.
Week of March 2	Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the Defense Department budget, with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
March 3	Time TBA, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.
March 4	7:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m., Center for Strategic and International Studies, "Project on Nuclear Issues Capstone Conference." At U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE. Register online.
March 4	Defense and Energy Departments submit to Congress an annual 10-year plan for the nuclear weapons stockpile, nuclear weapons complex, nuclear weapons delivery systems and nuclear weapons command and control system, "1043 report" (tentative) (Public Law 112-81, Sec. 1043, amended by Public Law 113-66, Sec. 1054).
March 5	45th anniversary of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entering into force.
March 6-15	House of Representatives recess.
March 12	9:00 a.m., Oral arguments on the appeal on behalf of the three Transform Now Plowshares protesters, Sister Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, convicted of sabotage for the Aug. 28, 2012 break-in at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, TN. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse, 100 E. Fifth St., Cincinnati.
March 14-17	Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), Spring Lobby Weekend. Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington.
March 15	National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress a biannual report on the plan for stewardship, management and certification of warheads in the nuclear weapons stockpile (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2523).
Week of March 16	Senate Budget Committee, markup of the annual budget resolution. 608 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
March 16-20	Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, "Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Short Course." VCDNP Conference Room, Donau-City-Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13, Vienna. Register by Jan. 30.
March 17	Israeli general election.
March 19	United Nations, "Civil Society Forum on the Conference on Disarmament." Palais des Nations, Council Chamber, Geneva.
March 23-24	Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington. Register online.
Week of March 23	Senate floor action on the annual budget resolution. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
March 23-April 2	U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, meeting of governmental experts on a fissile material treaty. Geneva.
March 24	10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, public meeting. Hilton at Mark Center, Laurel Conference Room, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA. RSVP required.
March 24	Due date for a political framework agreement by the P5+1 and Iran on Iran's nuclear program.
After March 24	Senate floor action on the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015 (possible). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
March 28-April 12	House and Senate spring recess. House recess begins March 27.
March	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM.
March or April	Third Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties Establishing Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia (estimate). United Nations.
April 3	Good Friday.
April 3	Passover begins at sunset. Through April 11.
April 5	Easter.
April 5	Sixth anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech on nuclear weapons.
April 6-26	U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations.
April 8	Fifth anniversary of the signing of the New START Treaty by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Prague. The treaty reduces the maximum number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons by the United States and Russia from 2,200 to 1,550 each.
April 12-16	Comprehensive Test Ban Organization and Israel Atomic Energy Commission, international assessment workshop of the large-scale simulation of an on-site inspection for a suspected nuclear test held in Jordan (Nov.-Dec. 2014). Ramat-Gan, Israel.
April 13	Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
April 15	State Department submits to Congress an annual report on arms control compliance (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2593a). Previous reports are posted on the State Department website.
April 17-18	New Hampshire Republican State Committee, presidential candidate summit. Nashua, NH.
April 22	100th anniversary of the first successful use of chemical weapons in World War I in Yepres, Belgium.
April 24-25	International Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World. Location TBA, New York.
April 26	Rally and March for Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World, Location TBA, New York.
Week of April 27	House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, markup of its portion of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Room TBA, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
April 27-May 22	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. United Nations.
April 28	U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Government of the Netherlands and other organizations, "Symposium on the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Nuclear Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Energy; Fresh Ideas for the Future." United Nations.
April 28-30	U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, "Symposium on Academia and Nuclear Policy." United Nations.
April 29	Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare.
April	Special election for the New York 11th Congressional District, to replace former Rep. Mike Grimm (estimate).
April	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.
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 2-11	House of Representatives recess.
May 7	United Kingdom general election.
Week of May 11	House Armed Services Committee, markup of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
May 13-14	National Defense University, "Countering WMD: A Changing Landscape?" National Defense University, 260 Fifth Ave. SW, Fort McNair, Washington. The symposium is at the U.S. Secret level.
Week of May 18	House floor action on the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.
May 21	10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, public meeting. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA. RSVP required.
May 23-31	House and Senate Memorial Day recess. House recess begins May 22.
May 25	Memorial Day (holiday).
May 25	Conference on Disarmament second session for 2015 begins. Through July 10. Geneva.
May or June	House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the annual energy and water appropriations bill, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. 2362-B Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. May be webcast.
June 4-5	President Obama attends a G-7 summit. Klais, Bavaria, Germany.
June 8-12	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
June 17	Ramadan begins at sunset. Through July 17.
June 18	10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, public meeting. Institute for Defense Analyses, 4850 Mark Center Drive, Room 1301, Alexandria, VA. RSVP required.
June 22-26	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, Science and Technology Conference. Vienna.
June 27-July 6	House and Senate Independence Day recess.
June 30	Target date for a final nuclear agreement with Iran.
July 3	Independence Day federal holiday.
July 4	Independence Day (holiday).
July 7	10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, public meeting. Institute for Defense Analyses, 4850 Mark Center Drive, Room 1301, Alexandria, VA. RSVP required.
July 16	70th anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM.
July 28	Third anniversary of the break-in at the Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, TN, by Sister Megan Rice and two fellow Transform Now Plowshares activists.
July 31-Sept. 7	House of Representatives summer recess.
Aug. 3	Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2015 begins. Through Sept. 18. Geneva.
Aug. 6	8:16 a.m., 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
Aug. 8	Republican Party of Iowa, presidential straw poll. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Aug. 8-Sept. 7	Senate summer recess.
Aug. 9	11:02 a.m., 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Aug. 11	20th anniversary of President Clinton's total ban on U.S. nuclear testing,
Aug. 25	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) releases its annual Nuclear Security Report. Vienna. The report will be posted on the IAEA website.
Aug. 26-28	United Nations-Japan Conference on Disarmament Issues. Hiroshima, Japan.
Aug. 29	International Day Against Nuclear Tests.
Aug.	First Republican presidential debate. City TBA, OH. Broadcast on Fox News.
Sept. 7	Labor Day (holiday).
Sept. 11	Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Sept. 13	Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset. Through Sept. 15.
Sept. 14	Federal agencies submit their initial budgets to the Office of Management and Budget for fiscal year 2017 (estimate). Final budgets are to be submitted to Congress on Feb. 1.
Sept. 16	Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. Broadcast on CNN.
Sept. 19-27	House of Representatives Yom Kippur recess.
Sept. 22	~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. 22	Yom Kippur begins at sunset. Through Sept. 23.
Sept. 23	Pope Francis meets with President Obama. White House, Washington.
Sept. 24	Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress. Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.
Sept. 25	Pope Francis addresses the U.N. General Assembly, United Nations. Broadcast on TV and webcast on the U.N. website.
Sept. 25	Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Article XIV Conference). United Nations.
Sept. 26	International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Sept. 26-27	Pope Francis visits Philadelphia.
Sept.	Non-aligned Movement summit. Caracas, Venezuela.
Sept. or Oct.	Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratoriesreports to Congress and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (Public Law 113-76, Sec. 319). (estimate; was due Feb. 1)
Oct. 1	Federal budget year begins.
Oct. 5-Nov. 4	General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) holds general debate. United Nations. Webcast on the U.N. website. Related events at the United Nations are on the Reaching Critical Will website.
Oct. 9	11:00 a.m. Norwegian time (5:00 a.m. EDT), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway.
Oct. 10-18	House and Senate Columbus Day recess. House recess goes through Oct. 19.
Oct. 12	Columbus Day (federal holiday).
Oct. 15-19	Parliament of the World’s Religions. Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City.
Oct. 30	National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers.
Nov. 3	U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi, and mayoral elections in many cities.
Nov. 6-15	House of Representatives Veterans Day recess.
Nov. 11	Veterans Day (federal holiday).
Nov. 12-15	Friend Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) annual meeting. Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington.
Nov. 15-16	President Obama attends a G-20 summit. Antalya, Turkey.
Nov. 15-19	World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. Atlanta.
Nov. 17-18	President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Manila, Philippines.
Nov. 21-29	House and Senate Thanksgiving recess. House recess begins Nov. 20.
Nov. 22	60th anniversary of the first Soviet thermonuclear test. Semipalatinsk Test Site, then in the Soviet Union and now in Kazakhstan.
Nov. 26	Thanksgiving (holiday).
Nov. 30	Office of Management and Budget returns amended budget requests to federal agencies for fiscal year 2017, known as budget passbacks (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 1.
Nov. 30-Dec. 4	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 20th annual conference. The Hague.
Dec. 6	Hanukkah begins at sunset. Through Dec. 14.
Dec. 10	7:00 a.m. EST (1:00 p.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prize awarded. Oslo, Norway.
Dec. 14	75th anniversary of the discovery of plutonium.
Dec. 18	House and Senate target recess.
Dec. 22	Fifth anniversary of the U.S. Senate ratification of the New START treaty on a 71-26 vote. The treaty reduces the maximum number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons by the United States and Russia from 2,200 to 1,550 each.
Dec. 25	Christmas (holiday).
Dec. 30	U.S.-China civil nuclear cooperation agreement ("123 agreement") expires.
Dec.	Russian Duma elections.
TBA	Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction(possible). Helsinki.
TBA	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC.

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