Nuclear Calendar | Friends Committee on National Legislation
January 2, 2013 |
Jan. 3 | Noon, House and Senate convene. House elects the Speaker of the House. |
Jan. 5-13 | House of Representatives recess. |
Jan. 7 | 9:30 a.m.-noon, Robert Hale, Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller), "Defense Spending and U.S. National Security Strategy." Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Jan. 8 | 7:00-8:30 p.m., Andrew Kanter, Physicians for Social Responsibility, "Nuclear Famine." All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Ave, New York. |
Jan. 8-10 | Austrian Foreign Ministry and U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, "U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540 Civil Society Forum--Opportunities for Engagement." Vienna. |
Jan. 16 | International Atomic Energy Agency continues negotiations with Iranian officials over its nuclear program. Tehran. |
Jan. 18 | National Nuclear Security Administration administrator Thomas D'Agostino leaves office. |
Jan. 20 | Noon, President Obama takes the oath of office. Capitol Building, Washington, (The inaugural address and parade will be on Jan. 21.) Broadcast on most TV networks. |
Jan. 21 | Noon, President Obama gives his second inaugural address, followed by the inaugural parade. Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast on most TV networks. |
Jan. 21 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
Jan. 21 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2013 begins. Through March 29. Geneva. |
Jan. 22 | Israeli general elections. |
Jan. 23 | 7:30 p.m., Ward Wilson, "Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons." Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA. |
Jan. 24-Feb. 3 | House of Representatives recess. |
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. 30-Feb. 1 | U.N. Conference on Disarmament Issues. Shizuoka, Japan. |
Jan. 31 | President Obama 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 Obama 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)). |
Jan. 31 | Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, "Strategic Weapons in the 21st Century." Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington (closed). |
Jan. | Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of a new Defense Secretary (estimate). Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on thecommittee website. |
Jan. | Senate Foreign Relation Committee, hearing on the nomination of Sen. John Kerry (MA) to be Secretary of State (estimate). Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
Jan. | Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick appoints a replacement to Sen. John Kerry, who will serve until a special election in June (estimate). |
Jan. | President Obama nominates a new Defense Secretary and possibly a new Energy Secretary (estimates). |
Jan. | Office of Management and Budget returns amended budget requests to federal departments for fiscal year 2014, known as budget passbacks. (Delayed from Nov.) |
Jan. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor. |
Jan. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
Jan. | P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom and United States) resume negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program (estimate). Istanbul. |
Jan. | Israel Aerospace Industries test launches its Arrow 3 missile for Israel's missile defense system (estimate). Palmachim Air Force Base, Israel. |
Late Jan. or early Feb. | 9:00 p.m., President Obama gives the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN, broadcast on other TV networks and webcast on the White House website. |
Jan.-March | Obama administration completes the Nuclear Posture Review Implementation Study (estimate). |
Jan.-March | Missile Defense Agency tests a Ground-based Interceptor missile fromVandenberg 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. |
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. 5 | President Obama 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. 16-24 | House and Senate Presidents Day recess. |
Feb. 17 | 10:00-11:30 a.m., David Strangway, Quest University; Miaki Ishii, Harvard University; and Raymond Jeanloz, University of California, "Unreasonable Usefulness of Test-Ban Verification for Disaster Warning and Science." Part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. Hynes Convention Center, Boston. |
Feb. 18 | Presidents Day (federal holiday). |
Feb. 18 | U.S.-Russian "Megatons to Megawatts" agreement, managed by USEC, expires. |
Feb. 19-22 | ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums, "Nuclear Deterrence Summit." Renaissance Capital View Hotel, 2800 S. Potomac Ave., Arlington, VA. Registeronline. |
Feb. 22 | Middle Powers Initiative, "Framework Forum for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World." Berlin. |
Feb. 26 | Illinois special primary election for the 2nd Congressional District to replace former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (The special Democratic primary election will effectively decide the general election on April 9.) |
Feb. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for the site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
Feb. or March | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Rose Gottemoeller to be Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (possible). 419 Dickson Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
Feb. or March | U.S. government reaches its debt ceiling. |
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 2-3 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, civil society forum. Oslo, Norway. |
March 3-5 | American Israel Public Affairs Committee, annual policy conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington. |
March 4-5 | Norwegian Foreign Ministry, "Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons." Oslo, Norway. |
March 4-8 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
March 6 | 10th anniversary of Senate ratification of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty(SORT), or Moscow Treaty, on a vote of 95 to 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 16-19 | Friends Committee on National Legislation, Spring Lobby Weekend. Washington. |
March 22-April 8 | House and Senate spring recess. (Senate recess is March 23-April 7.) |
March 23 | 30th anniversary of President Reagan's "Star Wars" speech. |
March 25 | Passover begins at sundown. |
March 27 | Continuing Resolution for unfinished appropriation bills for fiscal year 2013 expires. |
March 29 | Good Friday. |
March 29 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2013 ends. 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). |
March | Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget request to Congress (delayed from Feb. 4). Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website. |
March | Energy Secretary presents the Energy Department budget (delayed from Feb. 4). Energy Department, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington. Posted on the Energy Department website. |
March | 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) (tentative; delayed from Feb. 4). |
March | Pakistani general elections. |
April 1-19 | U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations. |
April 2 | Missouri special election for the 8th Congressional District to replace former Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (estimate). |
April 2 | Kansas City, MO, votes on a citizen’s initiative to bar city financing for nuclear weapons facilities. |
April 5 | Fourth anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech on nuclear weapons. |
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. Register online. |
April 8-19 | Chemical Weapons Convention, review conference. The Hague, Netherlands. |
April 9 | Illinois special election for the 2nd Congressional District to replace former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. |
April 9 | National Day of Nuclear Technology. (Date is an estimate). Iran. |
April 10-11 | Secretary of State attends a G-8 foreign ministers meeting. London. |
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 | 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(a)). Previous reports are posted on theState Department website. |
April 19 | States Parties to Nuclear Weapon Free Zones, Preparatory Committee meeting. Geneva. |
April 22-May 3 | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) preparatory committee meeting for the 2015 review conference. Geneva. |
April 27-May 5 | House and Senate recess. |
April | Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Turkey and United Arab Emirates) foreign ministers meeting. The Hague, Netherlands. |
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 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 6-10 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
May 7 | Transform Now Plowshares activists go on trial for sabotage at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant at Oak Ridge, TN. U.S. District Count for Eastern Tennessee, U.S. Courthouse, 800 Market St., Suite 130, Knoxville, TN. |
May 7 | South Carolina special election for the 1st Congressional District to replace former Rep. and now Sen. Tim Scott. |
May 11 | 15th anniversary of the Indian nuclear test, "Pokhran II." Pokhran, Rajasthan, India. |
May 13 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2013 begins. Through June 28. Geneva. |
May 24-June 2 | House and Senate Memorial Day recess. (Senate recess begins May 25. |
May 27 | Memorial Day (holiday). |
May 27 | 25th anniversary of Senate ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty by a vote of 93 to 5. The treaty eliminated a class of nuclear weapons, |
May 28 | 15th anniversary of Pakistan's first nuclear test. Chagai Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan. |
May | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor. |
May | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for theSurplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC. |
June 1 | 25th anniversary of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty entering into force. The treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. |
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 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." Cambridge, MA. |
June 14 | Iranian presidential election. |
June 17-18 | President Obama attends the G-8 summit. Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. |
June 17-21 | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Science and Technology Conference 2013." Hofburg Palace, Vienna. Register by Feb. 1 online. |
June 24 | 65th anniversary of beginning of the Berlin Blockade. |
June 28 | Conference on Disarmament second session for 2013 ends. Geneva. |
June 29-July 7 | House and Senate Independence Day recess. |
June 30 | U.S.-Russian umbrella agreement for the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program expires. |
June | Massachusetts special election to replace former Sen. John Kerry. |
June | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM. |
June | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decisionSupplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor. |
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 9 | Ramadan begins at sundown. Through Aug. 8. |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July 29 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2013 begins. Through Sept. 13. Geneva. |
July | Russian navy test launches the Bulava ballistic missile from the submarineAlexander Nevsky. |
Aug. 5 | 50th anniversary of the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty by the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and United States. Moscow. |
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 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. 2 | Labor Day (holiday). |
Sept. 4 | Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Through Sept. 6. |
Sept. 5-6 | President Obama attends the G-20 summit. St. Petersburg, Russia. |
Sept. 9 | Federal agencies submit their initial budgets to the Office of Management and Budget for fiscal year 2015 (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 3. |
Sept. 9-13 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
Sept. 11 | 12th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
Sept. 13 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2013 ends. Geneva. |
Sept. 13 | Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Through Sept. 14. |
Sept. 13-16 | House of Representatives Yom Kippur recess. |
Sept. 16-20 | International Atomic Energy Agency general conference. Vienna. |
Sept. 21 | International Day of Peace. |
Sept. 21-29 | House of Representatives recess. |
Sept. 24 | ~10:00 a.m., President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly (estimate). United Nations. Broadcast on CNN, video webcast on the U.N. website and may be video webcast on the White House website. |
Sept. 24 | 50th anniversary of Senate ratification of the Limited Test Ban Treaty by a vote of 80 to 19. |
Sept. 26 | U.N. General Assemble holds a high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament. United Nations. |
Sept. 28-Oct. 1 | J Street national conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington. |
Sept. | Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Article XIV Conference). Vienna. |
Fall | President Obama attends a NATO summit. Budapest, Hungary. |
Fall | German Federal Assembly, or Bundestag, elections (or earlier). |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 11 | 5:00 a.m. EDT (11 a.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 12-21 | House and Senate Columbus Day recess. (Senate recess ends Oct. 20.) |
Oct. 14 | Columbus Day (federal holiday). |
Oct. 24 | United Nations Day. |
Oct. 30 | National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers. |
Oct. 31-Nov. 11 | House of Representatives Veterans Day recess. (The Senate has not scheduled its recess yet.) |
Early Oct. | Dutch Foreign Ministry, preparatory meeting for the third Nuclear Security Summit (to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, March 2014). City TBA, Canada. |
Oct. | President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Bali, Indonesia. |
Nov. 5 | U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, and mayoral elections in many cities. |
Nov. 7-13 | Friends Committee on National Legislation annual meeting. Washington. |
Nov. 11 | Veterans Day (federal holiday). |
Nov. 20 | 30th anniversary of the broadcast of The Day After, a TV movie that depicted a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. |
Nov. 22-Dec. 1 | House of Representatives Thanksgiving recess. (The Senate has not scheduled its recess yet.) |
Nov. 25-29 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
Nov. 27 | Hanukkah begins at sundown. Through Dec. 5. |
Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving (holiday). |
Dec. 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual, classified report 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 life cycle cost of each type (House Report 110-921, p. 125). |
Dec. 2 | Office of Management and Budget returns amended budget requests to federal departments for fiscal year 2015, known as budget passbacks (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 3. |
Dec. 2-6 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands. |
Dec. 13 | House of Representatives target adjournment. |
Dec. 17 | 75th anniversary of the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman. Berlin. |
Dec. 25 | Christmas (holiday). |
TBA | Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction(possible). Helsinki. |
TBA | Pakistani presidential election. |
2014 | |
Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
An email version of the Nuclear Calendar is published every Monday morning when Congress is in session. Subscribe on FCNL's website.
The editor is