Nuclear Calendar -- August 15, 2014 -- Friends Committee on National Legislation
Aug. 2-Sept. 7 | House of Representatives and Senate summer recesses. |
Aug. 11-22 | U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, meeting of governmental experts on a fissile material treaty. Geneva. |
Aug. 16-18 | Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmamentmeeting, Jakarta, Indonesia. |
Aug. 19 | 6:00-9:00 p.m., Missile Defense Agency, public meeting on the proposed East Coast Missile Defense Site to be built at Fort Drum, NY. Meeting at Carthage Senior High School, Cafeteria, 36500 New York 26, Carthage, NY. |
Aug. 25 | Due date for Iran to provide information to the International Atomic Energy Agenda on allegations related to the initiation of high explosives, access to a centrifuge research and development center and centrifuge assembly workshops, centrifuge production workshops and storage facilities, and the conclusion of safeguards for the Arak reactor. |
Aug. 26 | 6:00-9:00 p.m., Missile Defense Agency, public meeting on the proposed East Coast Missile Defense Site to be built at the Fort Custer. MI. Meeting at the McCamly Plaza Hotel, Branson Ballroom, 50 Capital Ave. SW, Battle Creek, MI. |
Aug. 28 | 1:00-2:30 p.m., Attila Burjan, AWE National Nuclear Security Programme; and Michele Smith, U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, “U.S. and UK Cooperation to Address Technical Challenges in Verification of Nuclear Disarmament,” Vienna Center for Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation, Conference Room, Donau-City-Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13, Vienna. RSVP online. |
Aug. 28 | 6:00-9:00 p.m., Missile Defense Agency, public meeting on the proposed East Coast Missile Defense Site to be built at the Fort Custer. MI. Meeting at the Sherman Lake YMCA, Great Hall, 6225 N. 39th St., Augusta, MI. |
Aug. 29 | International Day Against Nuclear Tests. |
Aug. 29 | 65th Anniversary of the Soviet Union’s first nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, now part of Kazakhstan. |
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. 1-9 | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "Verification Through Diplomacy and Science." International Center, Vienna. Course is both online and in person. Register online. |
Sept. 4-5 | President Obama attends the NATO summit. Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. |
~Sept. 5 | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) quarterly board report on Iran's nuclear program becomes available (estimate). Vienna. Previous reports are available on the IAEA website. |
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. |
Week of Sept. 8 or 15 | House of Representatives floor action on a Continuing Resolution to continue federal government funding beginning Oct. 1. |
Week of Sept. 8, 15 or 22 | Senate floor action on a Continuing Resolution to continue federal government funding beginning Oct. 1. |
Sept. 9 | 6:00-9:00 p.m., National Nuclear Security Administration, public hearing on production of tritium for nuclear weapons at the Watts Bar and Sequoyah nuclear power plants. Southeast Tennessee Trade and Conference Center, Athens Regional Park, 122 Regional Park Drive, Athens, TN. |
Sept. 10 | 6:00-9:00 p.m., National Nuclear Security Administration, public hearing on production of tritium for nuclear weapons at the Watts Bar and Sequoyah nuclear power plants. Chattanooga State Community College, Center for Business, Industry and Health, Cafeteria--First Floor, 4501 Amnicola Highway, Chattanooga, TN. |
Sept. 11 | Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
Sept. 15 | Missile Defense Agency, due date for comments on the Environmental Impact Statement for East Coast Missile Defense Site, proposed for Fort Custer, MI; Camp Ravenna, OH; Fort Drum, NY; or Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, ME. Comments can be submitted by |
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 | 7:15 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Minot (ND) Area Chamber of Commerce, "The Strategic Nuclear Enterprise: Implementing the Roadmap Ahead," with 14 speakers. Army-Navy Club, 901 17th St. NW, Washington. RSVP to Lisa Moldenhauer by |
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 | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with President Obama (possible). United Nations. |
Week of Sept. 22 | Political leaders of the P5+1 and Iran resume negotiations on an agreement on Iran's nuclear program (estimate). United Nations. |
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. United Nations. Broadcast on CNN, webcast on the U.N. website and may be webcast on the White House website. |
Sept. 23 or 24 | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the U.N. General Assembly (estimate). United Nations. Webcast on the U.N. website and Iranian Press TV, and may be broadcast on some TV networks. |
Sept. 24 | Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset. Through Sept. 26. |
Sept. 26 | 6:00-8:00 p.m., "First International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons." Sponsored by Gandhi Alliance for Peace, United Nations Association of Utah, and Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Sugar House Park, Fabian Pavilion, 1400 East, 2100 South, Salt Lake City. |
Sept. 26 | International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. |
Sept. 29 | International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna. |
Sept. | Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, vote on the nomination of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to be Deputy Energy Secretary (estimate). 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
Sept. | Senate floor action on the National Defense Authorization Act, S. 2410 (possible). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2. |
Sept. | Senate floor votes on the nominations of Frank Rose to be Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance and Adam Scheinman to be Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation (possible). |
Sept. | Resumption of political-level nuclear negotiations by the P5+1 and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. United Nations or Vienna. |
Sept. | Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise submits its final report to Congress (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 3166) (possible). |
Sept. | Russian navy test launches its Bulava ballistic missile from the submarineVladimir Monomakh. From the White Sea to targets at the Kura Test Range, Kamchatka, Russia. |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 1 | Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg takes office as NATO Secretary General. Brussels. |
Oct. 2 | 5:00-7:00 p.m., Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown University, "A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat." American University, School of International Service, Room 300, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington. |
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 Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 11 | 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt receiving the "Einstein-Szilárd Letter," warning about the prospect of an atomic bomb. (Although the letter was dated Aug. 2, it was received by Roosevelt on Oct. 11.) |
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. |
Oct. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM. |
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 Cooperation leaders 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. 24 | Interim agreement on Iran's nuclear program expires. |
Nov. 27 | Thanksgiving (holiday). |
Nov. 27-30 | Senate Thanksgiving recess. |
Nov. | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons on entering 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 | 6:00-7:30 p.m., Praful Bidwai, Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, "Nuclear India: Prospects for Military and Civil Use." Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schumannstr 8, Berlin. |
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. 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 | 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 | Likely 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, 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. 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. |
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Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
Jan. 6 | Congress convenes (estimate). |
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 (estimate). Geneva. |
Jan. 31 | 65th anniversary of President Truman's decision to develop the hydrogen bomb. |
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 (estimate). Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website. |
Feb. 2 | Afternoon, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz presents the Energy Department's annual budget (estimate). Energy Department, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington. Posted on the Energy Department website. |
Feb. 2 | 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") (Public Law 112-81, Sec. 1043). |
Feb. 14-22 | House and Senate Presidents Day recesses (estimates). |
Feb. 15 | Missile Defense Agency (MDA) submits to Congress an annual report accountability reports 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. |
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 Chinese 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 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 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 | 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 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. |
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 7 | United Kingdom general election. |
May 25 | Memorial Day (holiday). |
June 4-5 | President Obama attends the G-7 summit. Klais, Bavaria, Germany. |
June 17 | Ramadan begins at sunset. Through July 17. |
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. 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. 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. 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. |
Sept. | Pope Francis visits Philadelphia and perhaps other U.S. cities. |
Fall | President Obama attends the G-20 summit. City TBA, Turkey. |
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