Nuclear Calendar -- Feb. 22, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar
February 22, 2011
Feb. 19-27 | House and Senate Presidents Day recess. (House recess begins Feb. 18.) |
Feb. 22 | 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Monica Herz, Catholic University; Nazir Messari, Al Akhawayn University; Trita Parsi, National Iranian-American Council; and John Limbert, Naval Academy, "A Reflection on the May 2010 Brazil-Turkey Nuclear Initiative Towards Iran." Wilson Center, Fifth Floor Conference Room, Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Feb. 22 | 9:30 a.m., HAN Hua, Peking University, China, "China and South Asia's Nuclear Relationship." Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, Cambridge, MA. |
Feb. 22 | Noon, Edward Warner, senior advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense (Policy) for Arms Control and Strategic Stability, "New START Treaty and Beyond." Ohio State University, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH. RSVP by Feb. 18 to Ann Powers by |
Feb. 23 | 9:00-10:30 a.m., Toby Dalton, Carnegie Endowment, "Pakistan Trip Report." Stimson Center, 1111 19th St., NW, 12th Floor, Washington. RSVP to Nate Cohn by |
Feb. 23 | 3:00-5:00 p.m., Richard Weitz, Hudson Institute; Joy Drucker, Partnership for a Secure America; Matthew Bunn, Harvard University; George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment; and Aparna Pande, Hudson Institute, "Nuclear Security in Pakistan: Issues and Implications." Hudson Institute, 1015 15th St., NW, Sixth Floor, Washington. RSVP to Richard Weitz by |
Feb. 24 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Gary Samore, National Security Council, "Pursuing the Prague Agenda: 2011-2012." Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, Cambridge, MA. RSVP online. |
Feb. 24 | 12:15-2:00 p.m., Neerada Jacob, Harvard University, "Can Sanctions Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons?" Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Kalb Seminar Room, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA. |
Feb 24 | 3:00-4:30 p.m., Richard Bush, Brookings Institution, and Victor Cha, Georgetown University, "U.S. Extended Deterrence in East Asia." Brookings Institution, Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Feb. 24-27 | Tufts University, "Our Nuclear Age: Peril and Promise," with Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance; former Defense Secretary William Perry; and 25 other speakers. Medford, MA. Register online. |
Feb. 25 | 10:00-11:30 a.m., Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, "START and the Next Steps in Arms Control." Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, Cambridge, MA. RSVP online. |
Feb. 25 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, brown bag lunch. Harvard Law School, Hauser 105, 1563 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA. |
Feb. 26-March 1 | J Street conference. Grand Hyatt Washington, 1000 H St., NW, Washington. Register online. |
Week of Feb. 28 | Senate floor action on the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011,H.R. 1. Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN2. (The Continuing Resolution is likely to be amended in the Senate to extend current appropriation bills for another two weeks, through March 18.) |
Feb. or March | Missile Defense Agency conducts a test of the Airborne Laser (possible; has been delayed several times). Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Sea Range off San Nicolas Island, CA. |
Feb. or March | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Risk-Based Approaches for Securing the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex. |
Feb. or March | India's Defense Research and Development Organization tests itsBallistic Missile Defense system (tentative). Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India. |
March 1 | 1:00 p.m., Georgetown University Law Center, "Next Step After New START: A Treaty on Tactical Nuclear Weapons?" with speakers TBA. Georgetown University Law Center, Gewirz Hall, 120 F St., NW, 12th Floor, Washington. RSVP by |
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 the Defense Department website. |
March 2 | 9:30 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the State Department budget, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org. |
March 2 | 10:00 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on the Defense Department budget, with Robert Gates, Defense Secretary; Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Robert Hale, Undersecretary of Defense. 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website. |
March 2 | NATO- Russia Council meets at the level of ambassadors. Brussels, Belgium. Missile defense cooperation is on the agenda. |
March 3 | 12:15-1:45 p.m., Peter Gottwald, German Commissioner for Arms Control and Disarmament, "Next Steps Toward Global Zero After Ratification of START: A German Perspective." Harvard University, Littauer 166, Cambridge, MA. RSVP by |
March 3 | 2:00-4:00 p.m., Barry Blechman, Stimson Center; Bates Gill, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; and Avner Cohen, Monterey Institute, book launch of Governing the Bomb: Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability of Nuclear Weapons. Stimson Center, 1111 19th St., NW, 12th Floor, Washington. RSVP to April Umminger by |
March 3 | 3:30-5:00 p.m., Riqiang Wu, Stanford University "China-U.S. Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation." Stanford University, Encina Hall Central, CISAC Conference Room, Second Floor, 616 Serra St., Palo Alto, CA. |
March 4 | Fourth continuing resolution for appropriations for fiscal year 2011 expires (Public Law 111-322). |
March 7-11 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. Iran's nuclear program is on the agenda. |
Week of March 7 | Vice President Joe Biden meets with Russian officials. Moscow. |
March 8 | Nuclear Regulatory Commission due date for comments on a petition to include proliferation assessments as part of the licensing process. Petition submitted by Francis Slakey on behalf of the American Physical Society. Comments can be submitted online. |
March 10 | 3:30-5:00 p.m., Bekhzod Yuldashev, Stanford University "Spent Nuclear Fuel and Nonproliferation." Stanford University, Encina Hall Central, CISAC Conference Room, Second Floor, 616 Serra St., Palo Alto, CA. |
March 12 | 2:00 p.m., New York Peace Film Festival, screening of A Thousand Cranes. All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave., New York. |
March 12 | 3:30 p.m., New York Peace Film Festival, screening of Flash of Hope: Hibakusha Traveling the World. All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave., New York. |
March 12 | 7:00 p.m., New York Peace Film Festival, screening of Twice Bombed, Twice Survived: The Legacy of Tsutomo Yamaguchi. All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave., New York. |
March 13 | 1:00 p.m., New York Peace Film Festival, screening of Beating the Bomb. All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave., New York. |
March 13 | 3:30 p.m., New York Peace Film Festival, screening of Free World. All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington Ave., New York. |
Week of March 14 | House and Senate floor action on a fifth continuing resolution (estimate). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. |
March 18-28 | House and Senate recess. (Senate recess is March 19-27.) |
March 19-22 | Civilian Soldier Alliance, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Peace Action, United for Peace and Justice, and Veterans for Peace, spring lobby weekend. True Reformer Building, 1200 U St., NW, Washington. Register online. For information, contact Matt Southworth by |
March 20 | 6:30 p.m., Environmental Film Festival, screening of Countdown to Zero. At the Carnegie Institution for Science, Elihu Root Auditorium, 1530 P St., NW, Washington. |
March 21 | 7:00 p.m., Environmental Film Festival, screening of Black Ocean (Noir Ocean), about three sailors aboard a naval vessel in 1972 taking part in nuclear tests in French Polynesia. At the La Maison Française, French Embassy, 4101 Reservoir Rd., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
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 22 | 7:00 p.m., Jennifer Smyser, Stanley Foundation, "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism." Bettendorf Public Library, Second Floor, 2950 Learning Campus Dr., Bettendorf, IA. |
March 22 | United States and Russia exchange information on each other's strategic nuclear arsenal under the New START Treaty. |
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). Register online. |
March 28-29 | Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. Register online. |
March 29 | 9:30-11:00 a.m., Alex Roesler, Sandia National Labs, "Today's U.S. Nuclear Stockpile." Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA. |
March 30 | 9:00 a.m.-noon, University of Georgia in Athens, "The Human Dimension of Nuclear Security," with Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists; Anne Harrington, National Nuclear Security Administration; Mary Alice Hayward, AREVA; Laura Holgate, National Security Council; Roger Howsley, World Institute of Nuclear Security; Jean Jalouneix, Institut de Radioprotection et Sûreté Nucleair, France; and Igor Khripunov, University of Georgia in Athens. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP to Andrea Pries by |
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 | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Thomas Countryman to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation (estimate). 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org. |
March | Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends an informal NATO defense ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Missile defense cooperation with Russia is on the agenda. |
March | Defense Secretary Robert Gates meets with Russian officials. Moscow, Missile defense cooperation is on the agenda. |
March | U.S. Air Force test launches a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (tentative). Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. |
March | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a draft supplemental environmental impact statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
March | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complexat Oak Ridge, TN. |
March or April | President Obama submits the protocols to the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty, or Treaty of Pelindaba, and the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, or Treaty of Rarotonga, to the Senate for ratification (estimates). |
March or April | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. |
March or April | Iran resumes talks on its nuclear program, with China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States, lead by Saeed Jalili, Iran's nuclear negotiator, and Catherine Ashton, European Union's foreign policy chief (possible). Location TBA. |
April 1 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2011 ends. Geneva. |
April 3-6 | Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, DC Days. Equality Center, 1640 Rhode Island Ave,, NW; Washington (April 3), and Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, 322 Fourth St., NE, Washington (April 4-6). Register online. |
April 4 | Avner Cohen, Monterey Institute, book discussion of The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb. University of California, San Diego, CA. |
April 4-6 | PONI (Project on Nuclear Issues) spring conference. J.W. Marriott, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas, NV. Register by March 3 online. |
April 4-22 | U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations. |
April 5 | Second anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech on nuclear weapons. |
April 5 | Director of National Intelligence, with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, submits to Congress a report on the threat from dirty bombs (Public Law 111-259, Sec. 344). |
April 6 or later | United States and Russia resume on-site inspections of each other's nuclear weapons facilities under the New START Treaty. |
April 8-11 | Global Zero hosts GZ|DC 2Ø11, a convention that includes policy negotiation seminars and advocacy, media, and campaigning workshops. George Washington University, Washington, DC. Registeronline. |
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 13-15 | Biological Weapons Convention preparatory meeting for the review conference (Dec. 5-22, 2011). Geneva. |
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-May 1 | House and Senate spring recess. |
April 18 | Passover begins at sundown. Through April 26. |
April 18-25 | Nevada Desert Experience, "Sacred Peace Walk" commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Las Vegas, NV to the Nevada National Security Site. Register online. |
April 22 | Good Friday. |
April 24 | Easter. |
April 26 | Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, releases his memoir, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. |
April 26 | 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Prypiat, Soviet Union, now Ukraine. |
April | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a draft environmental impact statement on the continued operation of the Nevada National Security Site. |
April | Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant begins operations (tentative). |
April | Iranian government sponsors a second annual conference on "International Disarmament and Security" (possible). Tehran, Iran. Portions webcast on Iranian Press 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 the Defense Department website. |
May 2 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. Broadcast on CNBC and MSNBC, and webcast on POLITICO. |
May 2-6 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Week of May 2 | House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic forces, markup of its portion of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). Room TBA, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website depending on room location. |
May 4-5 | National Defense University, WMD Center Annual Symposium. National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington. |
May 5 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Peace Center, 300 S. Main St., Greenville, SC. Broadcast on Fox News. |
May 10 or 11 | House Armed Services Committee, markup of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on thecommittee website. |
May 11 | 13th anniversary of the Indian nuclear test, "Pokhran II. Pokhran, Rajasthan, India. |
May 14-22 | House of Representatives recess. |
May 16 | Conference on Disarmament second session for 2011 begins. Through July 1. Geneva. |
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. |
Week of May 23 | House floor action on the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). Broadcast, video webcast, and audio webcast on C-SPAN. |
Week of May 23 or June 6 | Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic forces, markup of its portion of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
Week of May 23 or June 6 | Senate Armed Services Committee, markup of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on thecommittee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.orgdepending on room location. |
May 27-30 | House of Representatives Memorial Day recess. |
May 27-30 | NATO Parliamentary Assembly spring session. Varna, Bulgaria. |
May 28 | 13th anniversary of the first Pakistani nuclear test, "Chagai I. Chagai Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan. |
May 28-June 5 | Senate Memorial Day recess. |
May 30 | Memorial Day (holiday). |
May | 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. |
May | House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). 2362-B Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast. |
June 1 | 15th anniversary of Ukraine's removal of the last former Soviet strategic nuclear warheads to Russia. |
June 4-12 | House of Representatives recess. |
June 6-10 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
June 7 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Manchester, NH. Broadcast on CNN. |
June 7 | 30th anniversary of Israel's destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. |
June 8-10 | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "Monitoring Science and Technology" international scientific conference. Vienna, Austria. |
June 25-July 5 | House of Representatives Independence Day recess. |
June 26-27 | President Obama attends the G-8 summit. Deauville, France. Extension of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction may be on the agenda. |
June 29-30 | Partnership for Global Security, Biosecurity Conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington. |
June | Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
June | California special election to replace former Rep. Jane Harman (CA-36). |
June | Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a NATO defense ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Discussion of the NATO strategic review is on the agenda. |
June | Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a NATO- Russia Councildefense ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Missile defense cooperation is on the agenda. |
June | China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States hold a second nuclear powers conference to discuss nuclear weapons verification and transparency cooperation. Paris. |
June | Nuclear Suppliers Group plenary meeting (estimate). Location TBA. |
June | Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism annual meeting (estimate). Seoul, South Korea. |
June | Russian Navy test launches the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile from the Yury Dolgoruky submarine (tentative). White Sea, Russia. |
June | Los Alamos National Laboratory director Mike Anastasio retires. |
June or July | Senate floor action on the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (possible). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN2. |
Summer | National Academy of Sciences reports to the Defense Department and to Congress on boost-phase missile defense (estimate) (Public Law 110-417, Sec. 232, date amended by Public Law 111-84, Sec. 239). |
July 1 | Conference on Disarmament second session for 2011 ends. Geneva. |
July 2-10 | Senate Independence Day recess. |
July 4 | Independence Day (holiday). |
July 8 | 15th anniversary of an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. The Hague, Netherlands. |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July 16-24 | House of Representatives recess. |
July 31 | 20th anniversary of the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty(START I) by President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, reducing the U.S. and Soviet Union from over 10,00 deployed strategic warheads each to 6,000 each. Moscow. |
July 31 | Ramadan begins at sundown. Through Aug. 30. |
July | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a final supplemental environmental impact statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
Aug. 2 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2011 begins. Through Sept. 16. Geneva. |
Aug. 6 | Anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. |
Aug. 6-Sept. 5 | House and Senate summer recess. (House recess is through Sept. 6.) |
Aug. 9 | Anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. |
Aug. 11 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Broadcast on Fox News. |
Aug. 13 | Ames Straw Poll of Republican presidential candidates. Hilton Coliseum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. |
Aug. 29 | 20th anniversary of the closure of Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, the main Soviet nuclear test site. |
Aug. 29 | International Day Against Nuclear Tests. |
Aug. 31 | Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan. |
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). |
Week of Sept. 5 | Non-Aligned Movement summit. Belgrade, Serbia. |
Sept. 11 | 10th 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. 16 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2011 ends. Geneva. |
Sept. 18-20 | Women's Action for New Directions and Women Legislators' Lobbyconference. Washington. |
Sept. 19-23 | International Atomic Energy Agency general conference. 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 theU.N. website, and may be video webcast on the White House website. |
Sept. 24 | 15th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty opening for signature. United Nations. |
Sept. 24-Oct. 2 | House and Senate Rosh Hashanah recess. |
Sept. 26 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Sept. 27 | 20th anniversary of President George H.W. Bush's Presidential Nuclear Initiative to reduce unilaterally U.S. nuclear weapons, including cancellation of the MX rail-garrison and short-range attack missile (SRAM II) programs and the withdrawal of all remaining Army ground-based tactical nuclear weapons and Navy tactical nuclear weapons worldwide. He also ended the 24-hour alert status of B-1B and B-52 bombers. |
Sept. 28 | Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Through Sept. 30. |
Sept. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision for the supplemental environmental impact statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
Sept. | United Nations hosts a meeting for promoting the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. United Nations. May be video webcast on the United Nations website. |
Sept. | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program(estimate). |
Sept. | India test launches its new Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile (tentative). Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India. |
Fall | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final environmental impact statement on the continued operation of the Nevada National Security Site. |
Fall | 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). |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 3-Nov. 1 | U.N. General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. |
Oct. 7 | Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Through Oct. 8. |
Oct. 7-10 | House and Senate Yom Kippur-Columbus Day recess. |
Oct. 9 | Fifth anniversary of North Korea's first nuclear test, near Kilchu, North Korea. |
Oct. 10 | Columbus Day (federal holiday). |
Oct. 11-12 | 25th anniversary of the Reykjavik Summit between President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on nuclear arms reductions. Reykjavik, Iceland. |
Oct. 14 | 5:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 a.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prizeannounced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 15-23 | House of Representatives recess. |
Oct. 22-30 | Senate recess. |
Oct. 24 | United Nations Day. |
Oct. | Republican presidential debate. Orlando, FL. Broadcast on Fox News. |
Nov. 3-4 | President Obama attends the G-20 summit. Cannes, France. |
Nov. 3-6 | Friends Committee on National Legislation lobby day and annual meeting. Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW, Washington. |
Nov. 5-13 | House of Representatives Veterans Day recess. (Senate Veterans Day recess has not been scheduled yet.) |
Nov. 7 | Eid Al-Adha. |
Nov. 8 | U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial races in Kentucky and Mississippi and numerous mayoral races. |
Nov. 11 | Veterans Day (federal holiday). |
Nov. 12-13 | President Obama hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Honolulu. |
Nov. 17-18 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Nov. 19 | 15th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. Vienna, Austria. |
Nov. 19-28 | House of Representatives Thanksgiving recess. (Senate Thanksgiving recess has not been scheduled yet.) |
Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving (holiday). |
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands. |
Nov. | NATO Parliamentary Assembly annual session. Location TBA. |
Dec. 4 | Russian Duma elections. |
Dec. 5-22 | Biological Weapons Convention review conference. Geneva |
Dec. 8 | Congress adjourns (tentative). |
Dec. 12 | 20th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Public Law 102-228, Title II). |
Dec. 13 | 10th anniversary of President George W. Bush's announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
Dec. 20 | Hanukkah begins at sundown. Through Dec. 28. |
Dec. 22 | Anniversary of the ratification of the New START Treaty by the Senate on a vote of 71 to 26. |
Dec. 25 | Christmas (holiday) |
Dec. 26 | Christmas observed (federal holiday). |
Dec. or Jan. | NATO and Russia conduct a joint theater anti-missile defense exercise. Location(s) TBA, Europe. |
TBA | President Obama visits Pakistan. |
TBA | Vice President Joe Biden visits China. |
TBA | Defense Secretary Robert Gates retires. |
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 | Non-Aligned Movement's second summit meeting for 2011. Jakarta, Indonesia. |
2012 | |
Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
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. 1 | U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon begins a second five-year term (estimate). |
Jan. 2 | New Year's Day observed (federal holiday). |
Jan. 3 | Congress convenes (estimate). |
Jan. 4 | Fifth anniversary of "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn in the Wall Street Journal. |
Jan. 16 | Iowa Democratic and Republican presidential caucuses (estimate). |
Jan. 16 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2012 begins (estimate). Through March 23. Geneva. |
Jan. 16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
Jan. 24 | New Hampshire Democratic and Republic presidential primary (estimate). |
Jan. 28 | South Carolina Democratic and Republican presidential primary (estimate). |
Jan. 29 | 10th anniversary of President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. |
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 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction 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)). |
Jan. 31 | President Obama submits an annual report to the Senate on the implementation of the New START Treaty (New START Treaty,Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(10)). |
Jan. 31 | Florida Democratic and Republican presidential primary (estimate). |
Late Jan. or early Feb. | 9 p.m. EST, 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 | Missile Defense Agency conducts a Ground-Based Interceptor test for the missile defense system. Reagan Test Site, Marshall Islands, andVandenberg Air Force Base, CA (estimate). |
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. 5 | President Obama submits an annual report to the Senate on the status of negotiations with Russia on tactical nuclear weapons (New START Treaty, Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(12)(B)). |
Feb. 6 | ~10:30 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. 6 | ~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. 6 | 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). |
Feb. 7 | "Super Tuesday," with Democratic and Republican presidential caucuses and primaries in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah (estimates). |
Feb. 11 | Louisiana Democratic and Republican presidential primary. |
Feb. 14 | District of Columbia (estimate), Maryland, and Virginia Democratic and Republican presidential primaries. |
Feb. 15 | President Obama submits an annual report to Congress on how the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction 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 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. 18 | Nevada Republican presidential caucuses. Note: Presidential caucuses and primaries after the Nevada primary are not listed. |
Feb. 20 | Presidents Day (federal holiday). |
Feb. 22 | Fifth anniversary of the Defense Department's cancellation of the "Divine Strake" nuclear test simulation, using conventional explosives, at the Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
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 the Defense Department website. |
March 23 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2012 ends (estimate). Geneva. |
March 23-26 | Ecumenical Advocacy Days. Doubletree Crystal City-National Airport Hotel, Arlington, VA (March 23-25), and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., NE, Washington (March 26). |
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 | Russian presidential election. |
March-April | U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations. |
TBA | President Obama hosts a NATO summit. City TBA, United States. Adoption of a NATO strategic review is on the agenda. |
TBA | U.N. Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Location TBA. |
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