Jan. 12 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Tehran. |
Week of Jan. 12 | Congressional Budget Office releases an update of their nuclear weapons cost study (estimate). |
Jan. 12-23 | U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, meeting of governmental experts on a fissile material treaty. Geneva. |
Jan. 13 | 10:00 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee, hearing on "The North Korean Threat: Nuclear, Missiles and Cyber," with Sung Kim, State Department; Daniel Glaser, Treasury Department; and Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill, Department of Homeland Security. 2172 House Rayburn Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
Jan. 14 | 12:30-2:00 p.m., Michael Krepon, Stimson Center; Linton Brooks, former National Nuclear Security Administrator; and George Perkovich, Stimson Center, "The Myth of Deterrence Stability Between Nuclear-Armed Rivals." Stimson Center, 12th Floor, 1111 19th St. NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Jan. 14 | 4:30-6:00 p.m., Bill Luers, Columbia University; Paul Pillar, Georgetown University; and Robin Wright, journalist, "The Endgame: Success or Failure in Iran Nuclear Talks?" Georgetown University, Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N St. NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Jan. 14 | Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Geneva. |
Jan. 15 | 9:30 a.m., Adm. Cecil Haney, Commander, U.S. Strategic Forces, "Strategic Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century." Atlantic Council, 12th Floor, 1030 15th St. NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Jan. 15 | 10:30 a.m.-noon, Peter Sawczak, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; Shimon Stein, Institute for National Security Studies; and Nomi Bar-Yaacov, Chatham House, "Eliminating Chemical Weapons." Sponsored by International Institute for Strategic Studies. At Arundel House, Yew Conference Room, 13-15 Arundel St., Temple Place, London. RSVP by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
Jan. 15 &16 | British Prime Minister David Cameron meets with President Obama. White House, Washington. |
Jan. 15-19 | House of Representatives Martin Luther King Jr. recess. |
Jan. 16 | 9:00 a.m., 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. 18 | P5+1 and Iran continue negotiations on an agreement on Iran's nuclear program. Geneva. |
Jan. 19 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
Jan. 19 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2015 begins. Through March 27. Geneva. |
Jan. 20 | 7:00-9:00 a.m., Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, Air Force Assistant Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, "Strategic Deterrence Issues." Sponsored by the Air Force Association. Key Bridge Marriot, 1401 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA. RSVP online. |
Jan. 20 | 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. |
Jan. 22 | Noon-2:00 p.m., Christopher Bidwell, Federation of American Scientists; John Lauder, former CIA Chief of Nonproliferation; and Harvey Rishikof, American Bar Association, "Congress's Role in Verification After an Iranian Nuclear Deal." Sponsored by Third Way. At HVC-215 Capitol Visitor Center, Washington. RSVP by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
Jan. 26 | President Obama meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. New Delphi. |
Jan. 27 | 7:00 p.m., Day of Remembrance for Downwinders, and Pre-Parliament of World Religions. Sponsored by the Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, United Nations Association of Utah, and the Parliament of the World Religions. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1070 S. Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City. |
Jan. 28 | 2:00-3:30 p.m., Christine Leah, Yale University; Christian Ostermann, Wilson Center; and Elbridge Colby, Center for a New American Security, "Australia and the Bomb." Wilson Center, Sixth Floor, Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
Jan. 29 | 1:00-2:30 p.m., Susan Burk, former Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, "The NPT Review Conference: Looking Back and Looking Forward." Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, VCDNP Conference Room, Donau-City-Strasse 6, Andromeda Tower, Floor 13, Vienna. RSVP online. |
Jan. 31 | 65th anniversary of President Truman's decision to develop the hydrogen bomb. |
Feb. 2 | Morning, Office of Management and Budget releases the fiscal year 2016 federal budget. Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website. |
Feb. 2 | Afternoon, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz presents the Energy Department's annual budget. Energy Department, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington. RSVP required. Posted on the Energy Department website. |
Week of Feb. 2 | 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. |
Feb. 14 | First anniversary of a canister of nuclear waste rupturing at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. More than 20 workers were contaminated and the facility has been closed since. |
Feb. 14-22 | House and Senate Presidents Day recesses. House recess goes through Feb. 23. |
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. 24 | 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, public meeting. Hilton at Mark Center, Birch Conference Room, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA. RSVP required. |
Feb. 27 | 10:00-11:30 a.m., Tufts University, "Russia in the 21st Century: Military Readiness and Nuclear Capacity." Part of the Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Symposium. Tufts University, Cabot Intercultural Center, 170 Packard Ave., Medford MA. |
Feb. 28 - March 1 | Helen Caldicott Foundation, "The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction." At the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., New York. RSVP online. |
Feb. | Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Ashton Carter to be Defense Secretary. Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
Feb. | Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction(possible). Helsinki. |
Feb. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM. |
March 1 | Due date for a political framework agreement by the P5+1 and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. |
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 6-15 | House of Representatives recess. |
March 14-17 | Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), Spring Lobby Weekend. Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, 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. Register by Jan. 30. |
March 23-24 | Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington. Register online. |
March 23-April 2 | U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, meeting of governmental experts on a fissile material treaty. Geneva. |
March 24 | 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, public meeting. Hilton at Mark Center, Laurel Conference Room, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA. RSVP required. |
March 28-April 12 | House and Senate spring recess. House recess begins March 27. |
March or April | Third Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties Establishing Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia (date is an estimate). United Nations. |
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 22 | 100th anniversary of the first successful use of chemical weapons in World War I in Yepres, Belgium. |
April 24-25 | International Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World. Location TBA, New York. |
April 26 | Rally and March for Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World, Location TBA, New York. |
April 27-May 22 | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. United Nations. |
April 28 | U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, Government of the Netherlands and other organizations, "Symposium on the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Nuclear Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Energy; Fresh Ideas for the Future." United Nations. |
April 29 | Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare. |
April or May | Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratoriesreports to Congress and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (Public Law 113-76, Sec. 319). (estimate; was due Feb. 1) |
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 2-11 | House of Representatives recess. |
May 7 | United Kingdom general election. |
May 23-31 | House and Senate Memorial Day recess. House recess begins May 22. |
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 a 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. |
June 27-July 6 | House and Senate Independence Day recess. |
June 30 | Target date for a final nuclear agreement with Iran. |
July 3 | Independence Day federal 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. 1-Sept. 7 | House of Representatives summer recess. |
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. 8 | Iowa Republican presidential straw poll. Ames, IA. |
Aug. 8-Sept. 7 | Senate summer recess. |
Aug. 9 | 11:02 a.m., 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. |
Aug. 11 | 20th anniversary of President Clinton's total ban on U.S. nuclear testing, |
Aug. 26-28 | United Nations-Japan Conference on Disarmament Issues. Hiroshima, Japan. |
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 are to be submitted to Congress on Feb. 1. |
Sept. 16 | Republican presidential debate. Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. Broadcast on TV. |
Sept. 19-27 | House of Representatives Yom Kippur recess. |
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. 25 | Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Article XIV Conference). United Nations. |
Sept. 26 | International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. |
Sept. | Non-aligned Movement summit. Caracas, Venezuela. |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 5-Nov. 4 | General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) holds general debate. United Nations. Webcast on the U.N. website. Related events at the United Nations are on the Reaching Critical Will website. |
Oct. 9 | 11:00 a.m. Norwegian time (5:00 a.m. EDT), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 10-18 | House and Senate Columbus Day recess. House recess goes through Oct. 19. |
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. 15-16 | President Obama attends a G-20 summit. Antalya, Turkey. |
Nov. 15-19 | World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. Atlanta. |
Nov. 17-18 | President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Manila, Philippines. |
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. 30-Dec. 4 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 20th annual conference. The Hague. |
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. |
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 final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor. |