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Nuclear Calendar -- November 20, 2014 -- Friends Committee on National Legislation

Nov. 3-Dec. 9	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. 17-21	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Week of Nov. 17	Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise submits its final report to Congress (estimate) (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 3166).
Week of Nov. 17, 24 or Dec.	Senate floor vote on the nomination of Frank Rose to be Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance (estimate).
Nov. 18-24	Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman and the other political directors of the P5+1 continue negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. Vienna. Secretary of State John Kerry will join the negotiations at some point.
Nov. 19-20	Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, co-chairs the U.S.-India Strategic Security Dialogue with Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh. New Delhi. She will also hold a series of meetings with her Indian counterparts.
Nov. 20	9:30-11:30 a.m., Sen. Mark Kirk (IL), Rep. Ted Deutch (FL), Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Eric Edelman, Foreign Policy Initiative; and Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relation, "Looming Deadline and Unanswered Questions: What's Next for the P5+1 and Iran?" Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Initiative. SVC 203-02 Capitol Visitor Center, Washington. RSVPonline.
Nov. 20	1:00-4:00 p.m., House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, hearing on "Examining What a Nuclear Iran Deal Means for Global Security," with Gen. Michael Hayden (retired), Chertoff Group; Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on thecommittee website.
Nov. 20	5:30 p.m., Brig. Gen. Uzi Eilam (retired), Israeli Defense Ministry, and Jim Walsh, MIT, "Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran." Century Foundation, 1 Whitehall St., 15th Floor, New York. Register to attend in person or watch webcast online.
Nov. 20	Russian navy test launches its Bulava ballistic missile from the submarineAleksandr Nevskiy.
Nov. 20	6:30 p.m., Join Mark Tokola, former deputy chief of mission, U.S. Embassy in South Korea; Bruce Klingner, former CIA deputy division chief for Korea; Fred Fleitz, former CIA analyst; and Bruce Bechtol, former senior intelligence analyst, Defense Intelligence Agency, "Eyes on North Korea: Threats from the Hermit Kingdom." International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW, Washington. Tickets are $12.
Nov. 20-21	Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Quaker Public Policy Institute. Citizen advocates will urge members of Congress to let diplomacy work on the eve of the deadline for a final U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. Policy briefing on Iran will feature Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (retired). Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St. NE, Washington. Register online
Nov. 20-22	Center for Energy and Security Studies, Moscow Non-proliferation Conference.
Nov. 21	9:00-10:45 a.m., Nobumasa Akiyama, Hitosubashi University; Emma Chanlett-Avery, Congressional Research Service; Steve Fetter, University of Maryland; and Sharon Squassoni, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "The Nonproliferation Implications of Japan's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Decisions." CSIS, 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Webcast on the CSIS website.
Nov. 21	Noon-1:30 p.m., Suzanne DiMaggio, New America Foundation; David Hale, David Hale Global Economics; and Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council (NIAC), "An Iran Nuclear Deal: Economic, Security, and Regional Benefits." Sponsored by NIAC. Congressional Staff only. At HC-8, Washington. RSVPonline.
Nov. 21	2:00-3:00 p.m., Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and other speakers, "Syrian Chemical Disarmament: A Success Story of International Diplomacy. A Talk with Insiders." Part of theMoscow Nonproliferation Conference.
Nov. 21-30	House of Representatives Thanksgiving recess.
Nov. 22-23	Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), annual meeting. Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, and on Capitol Hill. Register online.
Nov. 24	Target date for a nuclear agreement with Iran.
Nov. 24-25	Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security holds a series of meetings with her U.K. counterparts. London.
Nov. 25	10:30 a.m.-noon, Gary Samore, Harvard University; David Albright, Institute for Science and International Security; and Edward Levine, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, "Iran-P5+1 Nuclear Negotiations: the Road Ahead." Brookings Institution, Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Nov. 25	6:00 p.m., Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety, and Thomas Nash, Article 36, "How Nearly Everything in Dr. Strangelove is True, and What We Need to Do About It." Sponsored by ICAN UK and University College London (UCL). At UCL, Medical Sciences Building, Medical Sciences Lecture Theatre 131 A V Hill, Gower St., London. RSVP online.
Nov. 27	Thanksgiving (holiday).
Nov. 27-30	Senate Thanksgiving recess.
Nov. or Dec.	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons on entering into force of the treaty. Budapest, Hungary.
Dec. 1	Office of Management and Budget returns revised budgets, known as passbacks, to federal agencies for fiscal year 2016 (estimate; may be delayed). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 2 (tentative).
Week of Dec. 1	Senate floor action on the U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defense Agreement, H.R. 5681(estimate). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
Week of Dec. 1 or 8	House and Senate floor action on the annual defense authorization bill (estimate).
Dec. 2	9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Robert Scher to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, and other nominations. 216 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Dec. 2	10:00 a.m., Clifford Kupchan, Eurasia Group; Cornelius Adebahr, Carnegie Endowment; and Erich Ferrari, Ferrari & Associates, "Breakthrough or Extension: Implications for U.S. and European Relations with Iran." Atlantic Council, 12th Floor, 1030 15th St. NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Dec. 3	Between 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation gives its final report to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO. Their report will be posted online.
Dec. 3	9:30 a.m., Arms Control Association and Carnegie Endowment, "The Outcome of the Iran Talks and the Next Steps," Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington.
Dec. 4-5	Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; James Acton, Carnegie Endowment; Andreas Persbo, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre; and other speakers. "The Prague Agenda 2014." Sponsored by the Czech Foreign Affairs Ministry and Institute of International Relations (Prague). Czernin Palace, Great Hall and Mirror Hall, Prague.
Dec. 5	8:30 a.m.-noon, Naval Postgraduate School, "Countering WMD's: Semi-annual Workshop," with eight speakers. At the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Dec. 5	2:00-5:30 p.m., Tony de Frum, Marshall Islands foreign minister; Pho van den Biesen, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA); Christopher Weeramantry, former vice president, International Court of Justice; Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs; and David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, "Back to the International Court of Justice: The Marshall Islands’ Nuclear Zero Lawsuits." Sponsored by IALANA and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. At Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, Vienna.
Dec. 5	20th anniversary of the START I treaty entering into force. The treaty reduced the number of U.S. and Russian deployed strategic nuclear weapons by 80 percent to 6,000 each.
Dec. 5	20th anniversary of Ukraine joining the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Dec. 6	Runoff election for the Louisiana Senate seat between Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) and Rep. Bill Cassidy (R).
Dec. 6-7	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, "Civil Society Forum," Vienna.
Dec. 8-9	Austrian Foreign Ministry, "Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons." Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Webcast on the Austrian Foreign Ministry website.
Week of Dec. 8	House and Senate floor action on a second Continuing Resolution or an Omnibus Appropriation bill (estimate).
Dec. 9-10	Project on Nuclear Issues, "Winter Conference." Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington. Register online.
Dec. 12	9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Arms Control Association, "From Ypres to Damascus: 100 Years of Chemical Warfare and Disarmament." At Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Root Room, Washington. RSVP online.
Dec. 12	Congress adjourns (tentative).
Dec. 15	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.
Dec. 16	Hanukkah begins at sunset. Through Dec. 24.
Dec. 17	12:30-2:00 p.m., Kazuto Suzuki and Jacqueline Shire, U.N. Iran Panel of Experts, "Deal or No Deal? Prospects for Iran's Nuclear Program." Princeton University, 221 Nassau St., Second Floor Conference Room, Princeton, NJ.
Dec. 22	Fourth anniversary of the U.S. Senate ratification of the New START Treaty on a71-26 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.	Congressional Budget Office releases an update of their nuclear weapons cost study.
Dec.	Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction(possible). Helsinki.
2015
Jan. 1	New Year's Day (holiday).
Jan. 6	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.
Jan. 6	Noon, Congress convenes.
Jan. 8-14	International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts, "Global Nuclear Governance: Actors, Policies and Issues." Hotel Gruppo, Trento, Italy. Applyonline.
Jan. 17-25	House and Senate Martin Luther King Jr. recesses (estimates).
Jan. 19	Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday).
Jan. 19	Conference on Disarmament first session for 2015 begins. Through March 27. Geneva.
Jan. 26	Time TBA, U.S. District Court for Northern California, hearing on a motion by the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit by the Marshall Islands to end the nuclear arms race and for nuclear disarmament, under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Oakland Courthouse, Courtroom 5, Second Floor, 1301 Clay St., Oakland, CA.
Jan. 31	65th anniversary of President Truman's decision to develop the hydrogen bomb.
Jan.	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM.
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 networks and webcast on the White House website.
Feb. 1	Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratoriesreports to Congress and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (Public Law 113-76, Sec. 319).
Feb. 2	Morning, Office of Management and Budget releases the fiscal year 2016 federal budget (tentative). Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website.
Feb. 2	Afternoon, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz presents the Energy Department's annual budget (tentative). Energy Department, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington. RSVP required. Posted on the Energy Department website.
Feb. 14-22	House and Senate Presidents Day recesses (estimates).
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.	National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision for theSupplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.
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 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 14-17	Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), Spring Lobby Weekend. 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).
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.
March 23-24	Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington. Register online.
March-April	U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, meeting of governmental experts on a fissile material treaty. Geneva.
March or April	Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, attends the sixth P5 conference. London. The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations (April 27-May 22) is on the agenda.
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 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 17-20	Ecumenical Advocacy Days. DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton Washington DC-Crystal City, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA.
April 27-May 22	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. United Nations.
April	Third Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties Establishing Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia (estimate). City TBA, Indonesia.
April	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons on entering into force of the treaty. City TBA, Italy.
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 7	United Kingdom general election.
May 25	Memorial Day (holiday).
May 25	Conference on Disarmament second session for 2015 begins. Through July 10. Geneva.
June 4-5	President Obama attends the G-7 summit. Klais, Bavaria, Germany.
June 17	Ramadan begins at sunset. Through July 17.
June 22-26	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization: Science and Technology Conference. Vienna.
July 3	Independence Day observed (holiday).
July 4	Independence Day (holiday).
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.
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. 9	11:02 a.m., 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Aug. 29	International Day Against Nuclear Tests.
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 will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 1.
Sept. 16	Republican presidential debate. Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. Broadcast on TV.
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. 25	Pope Francis visits Philadelphia. He may also visit Washington and New York.
Sept. 26	International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Sept.	Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. (Article XIV Conference). United Nations or Vienna.
Fall	President Obama attends the G-20 summit. City TBA, Turkey.
Fall	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons on entering into force of the treaty. City Hiroshima, Japan.
Fall	Russian navy test launches its Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from theVladimir Monomakh and Alexander Nevsky submarines. From east of the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean to the Chizha test range, Kanin Peninsula, Russia.
Oct. 1	Federal budget year begins.
Oct. 9	11:00 a.m. Norwegian time (5:00 a.m. EDT), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway.
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. 11	Veterans Day (federal holiday).
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.	President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Manila, Philippines.
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. 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.
TBD	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.

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