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Nuclear Calendar -- July 14, 2014 | Friends Committee on National Legislation

July 2-20	P5+1 and Iran continue negotiations on a nuclear agreement. Vienna.
July 12-?	Secretary of State John Kerry joins the P5+1 and Iran nuclear negotiations. Vienna.
July 14	Noon-1:00 p.m., Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council; Jonathan Leslie, research consultant; and Reza Marashi, National Iranian American Council, "Losing Billions: The Cost of Iran Sanctions to the U.S. Economy." Sponsored by National Iranian American Council. 121 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Congressional staff only. RSVP online.
July 15	10:00 a.m., Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, markup of the defense appropriations bill. 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
July 15	10:00-11:30 a.m., Steven Kull, University of Maryland; Nancy Gallagher, University of Maryland; and Suzanne Maloney, Brookings Institution, "A New Study of American Attitudes on Iranian Nuclear Negotiations." Sponsored by the Program for Public Consultation and the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. At the Carnegie Endowment, Choate Room, First Floor, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP to Rich Robinson by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at (202) 232-5075.
July 15	1:00-2:30 p.m., Frank von Hippel, Princeton University; Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association; and William Miller, Search for Common Ground, "A Win-Win Solution for the Negotiations over Iran's Nuclear Program." Sponsored by the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) and Search for Common Ground. VCDNP Conference Room, Donau-City Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13th, Vienna. RSVP online.
July 16	8:00-9:00 a.m., Christopher Ford, Senate Appropriations Committee; James Acton, Carnegie Endowment; and Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown University, "Nuclear Proliferation in Iran: The Right Nuclear Triad, BMD, Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Responses." Part of the Huessy Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington, RSVP to Peter Huessy by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
July 16	10:00 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee, hearing on "Iran's Destabilizing Role in the Middle East," with Scott Modell, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations; and Natan Sachs, Brookings Institution. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
July 16	Noon-2:00 p.m., Nuclear Threat Initiative, release of Innovating Verification: New Tools and New Actors to Reduce Nuclear Risks report series. At the United Nations Foundation, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,12th Floor, Washington. RSVP to Tammy Ware by email.
July 16	2:00 p.m., House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on "Twenty-Years of U.S. Policy on North Korea: From Agreed Framework to Strategic Patience," with Glyn Davies, Special Representative for North Korea Policy, State Department; and Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights, State Department. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on thecommittee website.
July 16	5:30-7:30 p.m., Joseph Cirincione, Ploughshares Fund, "Deal or No Deal: Negotiating to Stop Iran's Nuclear Program." Part of the WorldDenver conference. Curtis Hotel, 1405 Curtis St., Denver. Registeronline.
July 16	U.S. Air Force presents alternatives to modernize its ground-based nuclear missiles to defense contractors. Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah.
July 16	Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM.
July 17	9:30 a.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on "Russian Violations of the INF Treaty: After Detection--What?" with Steven Pifer, Brookings Institution; Stephen Rademaker, Bipartisan Policy Center, and Jim Thomas, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
July 17	10:30 a.m., Senate Appropriations Committee, markup of the defense appropriations bill. 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
July 17	Noon-1:30 p.m., former ambassador William Miller and Joshua Fattal, former Iran hiker-hostage, “How Diplomacy with Iran Can Work: A Former U.S. Diplomat in Iran and a Former Hostage Tell Their Stories.” Sponsored by the Friends Committee on National Legislation. 402 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Congressional staff only. RSVP to Maiya Zwerling by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
July 17	Noon-2:00 p.m., Sen. Mark Kirk (IL); Sen. Dan Coats (IN); Rep. Eliot Engel (NY); Rep. Brad Sherman (CA); Stephen Rademaker, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation; Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations, "High Standards and High Stakes: Defining Terms of an Acceptable Iran Nuclear Deal." Sponsored by Bipartisan Policy Center. 902 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. RSVP online.
July 18	8:00-9:00 a.m., Rob Soofer, Senate Armed Service; and Leonor Tomero, House Armed Services Committee, "SASC and HASC Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Budgets." Part of the Huessy Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington, RSVP to Peter Huessy by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
July 18	9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "Nuclear Centers of Excellence in Asia: Next Steps," with Kazunori Hirao, Japan Atomic Energy Agency; Laura Holgate, National Security Council; and 11 other speakers. CSIS, 212-A/B Conference Room, 1616 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP to Robert Kim by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
July 20	Interim agreement on Iran's nuclear program expires.
July 21	Noon-1:15 p.m., Robert Litwak, Wilson Center; Mitchell Reiss, Washington College; and David Sanger, New York Times, "Iran’s Nuclear Chess: Calculating America’s Moves." Wilson Center, Fifth Floor, Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online.
July 24	Noon-1:30 p.m., John Caves and Seth Carus, National Defense University, "The Future of WMD in 2030." National Defense University, Lincoln Hall, Room 1119, Fort McNair, Washington. Off the record. RSVP to Nima Gerami by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
July 24	2:30-4:00 p.m., Steve Gilman, Robert Howarth and Stanley Dienst, Physicians for Social Responsibility, "We Are All on the Front Line." University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1 University Heights, Asheville, NC.
July 28	Noon-1:30 p.m., Dennis Ross, former former special assistant to President Obama; Eric Edelman, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; Stephen Rademaker, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation; and Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations, "Final Deal with Iran: Outcomes and Next Steps." Sponsored by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Location TBA, Washington.
July 28	3:00-5:15 p.m., Carnegie Endowment and Korea Economic Institute, "Nuclear Politics on the Korean Peninsula," with seven speakers. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online.
July 28	Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2014 begins. Through Sept. 12. Geneva.
July 29	2:00 p.m., House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, hearing on "Protecting the Homeland from Nuclear and Radiological Threats," with witnesses TBA. 311 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
July	Senate floor votes on the nominations of Brian McKeon to be Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Madelyn Creedon to be Principal Deputy Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration, Frank Rose to be Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance, Adam Scheinman to be Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Robert Wood to be Representative to the Conference on Disarmament (possible).
July	Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise submits its final report to Congress (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 3166) (possible).
July	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.
July or Sept.	Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, hearing on the nomination of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to be Deputy Energy Secretary (estimate). 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Aug. 1-Sept. 7	House of Representatives and Senate summer recess. (Senate recess begins Aug. 2.)
Aug. 2	75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt receiving the "Einstein-Szilárd Letter," warning about the prospect of an atomic bomb.
Aug. 2-9	Japan Council against A- & H-Bombs (GENSUIKYO), World Conference Against A- and H-Bombs. Hiroshima (Aug. 2-6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 8-9).
Aug. 6	8:16 a.m., anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. A national calendar of commemoration events is provided by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
Aug. 6	6:00-7:00 p.m., Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR) and Col. Ann Wright (retired), "The Old and New Faces of Nuclear Weapons." Sponsored by Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility. Japanese American Historical Plaza at Waterfront Park, Portland, OR.
Aug. 9	9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Global Zero, “Bike Around the Bomb.” President’s Park, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. Register online.
Aug. 9	11:02 a.m., anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. A national calendar of commemoration events is provided by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
Aug. 27-30	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, World Congress. Astana, Kazakhstan.
Aug. 29	International Day Against Nuclear Tests.
Aug. 29	65th Anniversary of the Soviet Union’s first nuclear test at theSemipalatinsk Test Site, now part of Kazakhstan.
Aug.	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM.
Sept. 1	Labor Day (holiday).
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. 4-5	President Obama attends a NATO summit. Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.
Sept. 8	Federal agencies submit their initial budgets to the Office of Management and Budget for fiscal year 2016 (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 2.
Sept. 11	Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Sept. 11-14	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, "Action Academy," Berlin. Open to participants age 18-30 from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. Apply by July 20online.
Sept. 15-19	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Sept. 16-17	University of Antwerp, “Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: The Role of Nuclear Security.” University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp, Belgium.
Sept. 18	Scotland holds a referendum on becoming an independent state.
Sept. 20-28	House of Representatives Rosh Hashanah recess.
Sept. 22	35th anniversary of the "Vela Incident," a nuclear explosion over the South Indian Ocean off the Cape of Good Hope, possibly conducted by South Africa with the assistance of Israel.
Sept. 22-26	International Atomic Energy Agency, annual general conference. Vienna.
Week of Sept. 22 or 29	Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with President Obama. White House, Washington.
Sept. 23	~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. 24	Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset. Through Sept. 26.
Sept. 26	International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Sept. 29	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Sept.	House and Senate floor action on a Continuing Resolution to continue federal government funding after Sept. 30.
Sept.	Russian navy test launches its Bulava ballistic missile from the submarine Vladimir Monomakh. From the White Sea to targets at the Kura Test Range, Kamchatka, Russia.
Fall	Senate floor action on the National Defense Authorization Act, S. 2410(estimate). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
Fall	State Department submits to Congress an annual report on arms control compliance (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2593a) (estimate). Delayed from April 15. Previous reports are posted on the State Department website.
Oct. 1	Federal budget year begins.
Oct. 1	Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg takes office as NATO Secretary General. Brussels.
Oct. 3	Yom Kippur begins at sunset. Through Oct. 4.
Oct. 3-Nov. 11	House of Representatives Election Day recess. (The Senate recess has not been scheduled yet.)
Oct. 4-11	Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. "Keep Space for Peace Week." Various locations.
Oct. 6	U.N. General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) begins. Through Nov. 5. United Nations.
Oct. 10	11:00 a.m. Norwegian time (5:00 a.m. EDT), Nobel Peace Prizeannounced (estimate). Oslo, Norway.
Oct. 13	Columbus Day (federal holiday).
Oct. 13	15th anniversary of the U.S. Senate defeat of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on a 48-51 vote.
Oct. 16	50th anniversary of the first Chinese nuclear test. Lop Nur, China.
Oct. 20-24	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), "Symposium on International Safeguards: Linking Strategy, Implementation and People." IAEA Headquarters, Vienna.
Oct. 30	National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers.
Nov. 4	U.S. Election Day.
Nov. 5	U.N. General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) ends. United Nations.
Nov. 9	25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Nov. 10–11	President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperationleaders meeting. Beijing.
Nov. 11	Veterans Day (federal holiday).
Nov. 15-16	President Obama attends a G-20 summit. Brisbane, Australia.
Nov. 17-21	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Nov. 20-22	Center for Energy and Security Studies, "Moscow Nonproliferation Conference."
Nov. 20-23	Friends Committee on National Legislation annual meeting. Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW, Washington, and on Capitol Hill. Register online.
Nov. 21-30	House of Representatives Thanksgiving recess.
Nov. 27	Thanksgiving (holiday).
Nov. 27-30	Senate Thanksgiving recess.
Nov.	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons on entry into force of the treaty. Budapest, Hungary.
Nov.	Russian navy test launches its Bulava ballistic missile from the submarine Yuri Dolgorukiy. From the White Sea to targets at the Kura Test Range, Kamchatka, Russia.
Nov.-Dec.	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization conducts a full-scale simulation of an on-site inspection, known as Integrated Field Exercise 2014. Southern Jordan, near the Dead Sea.
Nov. or Dec.	Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction (possible). Helsinki.
Dec. 1	Office of Management and Budget returns revised budgets, known as passbacks, to federal agencies for fiscal year 2016 (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 2.
Dec. 5	20th anniversary of the START I treaty entry into force. The treaty reduced the number of U.S. and Russian deployed strategic nuclear weapons by 80 percent to 6,000 each.
Dec. 6	Runoff election for the Louisiana Senate seat, with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) versus the Republican candidate (probable).
Dec. 6-7	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, "Civil Society Forum," Vienna.
Dec. 8-9	Austrian Foreign Ministry, third international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. Vienna,
Dec. 10	1:00 p.m. Norwegian time (7:00 a.m. EST), Nobel Peace Prize awarded. Oslo, Norway.
Dec. 12	House of Representatives adjournment (tentative).
Dec. 16	Hanukkah begins at sunset. Through Dec. 24.
Dec. 20	Congressional Budget Office reports to Congress on the 10-year cost of maintaining U.S. nuclear weapons and delivery systems (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 1041).
Dec. 25	Christmas (holiday).
Dec.	Russia test launches the new RS-26 Rubezh, intercontinental ballistic missile (possible). Kapustin Yar Missile Test Range, Russia, to the Sary Shagan Missile Test Range, Kazakhstan.
TBA	Obama administration submits to Congress a revised U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defense Agreement, which expires as the end of 2014.
TBA	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC.
TBA	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for the Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site.
TBA	India test launches the Agni V intercontinental ballistic missile. Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India.
TBA	India test launches the Agni VI intercontinental ballistic missile. Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India.
2015
Jan. 1	New Year's Day (holiday).
Jan. 6	Congress convenes (estimate).
Jan. 19	Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday).
Feb. 1	Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories reports to Congress and to the Energy Secretary (Public Law 113-76, Sec. 319).
Feb. 16	Presidents Day (federal holiday).
March 1	National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on the budget, objectives and metrics of the nuclear nonproliferation programs (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 3145).
March 14-17	Friends Committee on National Legislation, Spring Lobby Weekend. Washington.
March 23-24	Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington.
March-April	U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, meeting of governmental experts on a fissile material treaty. Geneva.
March or April	Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller attends the sixth P5 conference. City TBA, United Kingdom. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations (April 27-May 22) is on the agenda.
April 17-20	Ecumenical Advocacy Days. DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton Washington DC-Crystal City, 300 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, VA.
April 27-May 22	Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review conference. United Nations.
May 7	United Kingdom general election.
TBA	Pope Francis visits the United States.

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