Nuclear Calendar -- July 11, 2011
July 10-13 | Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen meets with Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army Chen Bingde and other officials. Beijing. |
July 10-14 | Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang meets with North Korea officials. Pyongyang, North Korea. Resumption of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program is on the agenda. |
July 11 | 11:00 a.m., President Obama holds a news conference on the budget negotiations. White House, Washington. Broadcast on CNN and other networks. |
July 11 | 2:00 p.m., House of Representatives continues floor action on the energy and water appropriations bill, H.R. 2354, with debate on amendments. Voting on amendments begins at 6:30 p.m. Floor action on the bill may continue through July 12. Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN. |
July 11 | 2:00 p.m., President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and House and Senate congressional leaders continue budget negotiations. White House, Washington. |
July 11-13 | Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Washington. Nuclear arms reductions and missile defense cooperation are on the agenda. |
July 12 | Noon, House of Representatives may continue floor action on the energy and water appropriations bill, H.R. 2354, with debate and voting on amendments, if the bill is not completed on July 11. Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN. |
July 12 | 1:00-4:00 and 6:00-9:00 p.m., National Nuclear Security Administration, public scoping meetings on a Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories. Hilton Albuquerque Hotel, 1901 University Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, NM. |
July 12 | California special election runoff to replace former Rep. Jane Harman (CA-36). |
July 12 | Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi meets with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano to discuss Iran's nuclear program. Vienna, Austria. |
July 13 | 1:00-4:00 and 6:00-9:00 p.m., National Nuclear Security Administration, public scoping meetings on a Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories. Hilton Albuquerque Hotel, 1901 University Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, NM. |
July 13 | 2:00-4:00 p.m., Olli Heinonen, Harvard University; Douglas Feith, Hudson Institute; and Peter Jones, University of Ottawa, "Perspectives on the Iranian Nuclear Challenge." Sponsored by the Hudson Institute and the Partnership for a Secure America. At the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th St, NW, Sixth Floor, Washington. RSVP to Richard Weitz by |
July 13 | 3:00 p.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Thomas Countryman to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation, and other nominations. 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast onCapitolHearings.org. |
July 13-14 | Global Zero Student Institute. Inspire Business Center, 1016 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago. Registration form online. |
July 14 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL), "Senate Outlook on Nuclear Deterrence, Missile Defense, and Proliferation Threats." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by noon, July 13, to Elma Rhue by |
July 14 | 10:00 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee, markup of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2012. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website. |
July 14 | Afternoon, U.N. Security Council considers the Syrian refusal to comply with an ongoing review by the International Atomic Energy Agency of a suspected nuclear reactor destroyed in 2007. United Nations. Video webcast on the United Nations website. |
July 15-16 | Secretary of State Hilary Clinton meets with Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Ankara, Turkey. A U.S.-Turkish agreement is expected to be signed to base a radar station in Turkey as part of the U.S. missile defense system. |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July 18 | 2:30-4:30 p.m., Shahzad Chaudhry, Air Vice Marshall (retired), Pakistan Air Force; Toby Dalton, Carnegie Endowment; Jamshed Hashmi, Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority; Vijay Shankar, former Commander-in-Chief, Indian Strategic Forces Command; and Moeed Yusuf, U.S. Institute of Peace, "The Ticking Time Bomb: South Asia's Nuclear Build-up." U.S. Institute of Peace, 2301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington. Webcast on the U.S. Institute of Peace website. |
July 18 | 20th anniversary of the "Agreement between Brazil and Argentina for the Exclusively Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy," or Guadalajara Agreement, which created the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials. |
July 19 | 2:00-3:30 p.m., Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists; Steven Pifer, Brookings Institution; and Franklin Miller, Scowcroft Group, "NATO's Nuclear Future: The Alliance's Posture Review, Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe, and Arms Control." Brookings Institution, Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 19 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leads the U.S. delegation for the second round of the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue. New Delhi. The recent Nuclear Suppliers Group decision to ban supplying enrichment and reprocessing technologies to countries that are not members of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is on the agenda. |
July 20-25 | Global Zero Student Institute. At George Washington University, 1957 E St., NW, Washington. Registration form online. |
July 21 | 10:00-11:00 a.m., Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies,book launch of North Korean Security Challenges: A Net Assessment. Arundel House, Lee Kwan Yew Conference Room, 13-15 Arundel St., Temple Place, London. RSVP to Charlotte Laycock by |
July 21 | 11:00 a.m.-noon, Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, "The State of the U.S.-Pakistan Relationship." Wilson Center, Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. RSVPs are required for media organizations only. Non-media attendees need not RSVP. RSVP online. Webcast on the Wilson Center website. |
July 21-22 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum meeting (estimate). Bali, Indonesia. |
July 22 | White House due date for a deficit reduction agreement to raise the debt ceiling, to be enacted by Aug. 2. |
July 25-29 | 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Bruce MacDonald, U.S. Institute of Peace, and other speakers, "Advanced Issues in Strategic Arms Control," U.S. Institute of Peace, 2301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington. Register online. |
July 26 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Gen. Robert Kehler, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, "Nuclear Deterrence, Arms Control, Missile Defense, and Defense Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by noon, July 25, to Elma Rhue by |
July 26 | 11:55 p.m., Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and other organizations, ICBM Launch Protest. Vandenberg Air Force Base, Main Gate, intersection of State Highway 1 and Lompoc-Casmalia Rd., Lompoc, CA. |
July 26-27 | Hina Rabbani Khar, in-coming Pakistani foreign minister, and S.M. Krishna, Indian Foreign Minister, negotiate additional nuclear confidence-building measures and announce them to the public. New Delhi. |
July 27 | Time TBA, House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, markup of the State, foreign operations appropriations bill (tentative). HT-2 Capitol Building, Washington. Not webcast. |
July 27 | Time TBA, U.S. Air Force test launches a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, toward the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, Central Pacific Ocean. |
July 27-29 | U.N. Conference on Disarmament Issues. Matsumoto, Japan. |
July 29 | Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future submits an interim report to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. |
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 draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
July or week of Aug. 1 | Senate floor action on the defense authorization bill, S. 1253, which includes the nuclear weapons and nuclear nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (possible). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN2. |
July or week of Aug. 1 | Senate floor action on the nomination of William Burns to be Deputy Secretary of State (estimate). |
July or Aug. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a notice of intent to do a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor. |
July or Aug. | 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 or Sept. | Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Madelyn Creedon to be Assistant Defense Secretary for Global Strategic Affairs (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on thecommittee website and audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on room location. |
July or Sept. | Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Gen. Martin Dempsey to be Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (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. |
July or Sept. | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Sung Kim to be ambassador to South Korea (estimate). 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast onCapitolHearings.org. |
Aug. 1-2 | National Academy of Sciences, "Improving the Assessment of Proliferation Risk of Nuclear Fuel Cycles: A Workshop." Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 Fifth St., NW, Washington. RSVP to Shauntee Whetstone by |
Aug. 2 | U.S. debt-default due date. |
Aug. 2 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2011 begins. Through Sept. 16. Geneva. |
Aug. 3 | Time TBA, House Appropriations Committee, markup of the State, foreign operations appropriations bill (tentative). 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Video and audio webcast on the committee website. |
Aug. 3-4 | U.S. Strategic Command, "Deterrence Symposium." Qwest Center, Omaha, NE. |
Aug. 3-9 | Japan Council Against A and H Bombs, World Conference Against A and H Bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. |
Aug. 4 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Barry Blechman, Stimson Center, "Global Nuclear Zero: Prospects." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by noon, Aug. 3, to Elma Rhue by |
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. 9-10 | Global Zero Student Institute. San Francisco. Registration form online. |
Aug. 11 | 8:00 p.m. CDT (9:00 p.m. EDT), Republican presidential debate. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Broadcast on Fox News. |
Aug. 13 | Noon, Ames Straw Poll of Republican presidential candidates. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. |
Aug. 17 | Vice President Joe Biden visits China. |
Aug. 18 | Nuclear Free Future, "Walk Away from Uranium Mining," a 10-week walk through Western Australia to oppose uranium mining. Through Oct. 30. |
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. |
Aug. | Missile Defense Agency tests the Airborne Laser (possible). Edwards Air Force Base, CA, and San Nicolas Island, CA. |
Aug. | Inauguration ceremony for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, with Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko. Bushehr, Iran. |
Aug. or Sept. | Obama administration completes a plan to reorganize trade and export agencies. |
Aug. or Sept. | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (estimate). |
Sept. 1 | President Obama submits to Congress an annual Global Nuclear Security report 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). |
Sept. 7 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. Broadcast on CNBC and MSNBC, and video webcast on POLITICO. |
Sept. 8-9 | 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) fall conference, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA. |
Sept. 11 | 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
Sept. 12 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Tampa, FL. Broadcast and video webcast on CNN. |
Sept. 12-16 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Sept. 13 | Nevada special election to replace former Rep., and now Sen., Dean Heller (NV-2) and New York special election to replace former Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY-9). |
Sept. 14 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Foster, member, Strategic Posture Commission, "Maintaining and Modernizing the Nuclear Enterprise." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by noon, Sept. 13, to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 16 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Peppi DeBiaso, Director, Office of Missile Defense Policy, Defense Department, "Missile Defense Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by noon, Sept. 15, to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 16 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2011 ends. Geneva. |
Sept. 16-17 | International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons conference, Geneva. |
Sept. 18-20 | Women's Action for New Directions and Women Legislators' Lobby conference and lobby day. L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 480 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington. |
Sept. 19-23 | International Atomic Energy Agency general conference. Vienna, Austria. |
Week of Sept. 19 | Nonproliferation and Disarmament Initiative, composed of Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates, meeting of foreign ministers. United Nations. |
Sept. 20 | ~10:00 a.m., President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly. United Nations (estimate). Broadcast on CNN, video webcast on the U.N. website, and may be video webcast on the White House website. |
Sept. 20, 21, 22, or 23 | House of Representatives floor action on the State, foreign operations appropriations bill (tentative). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN. |
Sept. 21 | 8:00-9:00 a.m., Joseph DeTrani, Director, National Counterproliferation Center, "U.S. Proliferation Policy." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP by noon, Sept. 20, to Elma Rhue by |
Sept. 21 | International Day of Peace. |
Sept. 22 | U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes a High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Safety and Security. United Nations. |
Sept. 22 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Orlando, FL. Broadcast on Fox News. |
Sept. 23 | U.N. Conference for Promoting the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Article XIV Conference). United Nations. |
Sept. 23 | 19th anniversary of the last U.S. nuclear weapon test, "Divider." Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
Sept. 24 | 15th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. 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. 26-30 | 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Bruce MacDonald, U.S. Institute of Peace, and other speakers, "Advanced Issues in Nuclear Nonproliferation." U.S. Institute of Peace, 2301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington. Register online. |
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. | House of Representatives floor action on the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2012 (estimate). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN. |
Sept. | Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, markup of the defense appropriations bill (estimate). Room TBA, Senate Office Building Washington. May be audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org depending on location. |
Sept. | Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, which includes the nuclear weapons and nuclear nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Room TBA, Senate Office Building Washington. May be audio webcast onCapitolHearings.org depending on location. |
Sept. | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Mike McFaul to be ambassador to Russia (estimate). 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee website and audio webcast onCapitolHearings.org. |
Sept. | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Wendy Sherman to be Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (estimate). 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Video webcast on the committee websiteand audio webcast on CapitolHearings.org. |
Sept. | Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan meets with President Obama. Washington. |
Sept. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for surplus plutonium disposition at the Savannah River Site, SC. |
Sept. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
Sept. | National Academy of Sciences releases a report on Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (estimate). |
Sept. or Oct. | William Lynn resigns as Deputy Defense Secretary (estimate). |
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. 1 | Adm. Mike Mullen retires as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Martin Dempsey takes office. |
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 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate, focusing on economic issues. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Broadcast and video webcast on Bloomberg TV. |
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. 11-13 | International Forum for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World. Kazakhstan, Astana. |
Oct. 14 | 5:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 a.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway. |
Oct. 15-23 | House of Representatives recess. |
Oct. 18 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV. Broadcast on CNN. |
Oct. 21-22 | American Friends Service Committee and other organizations, "Peace in Asia and the Pacific: Alternatives to Militarization." American University, Washington. |
Oct. 22-30 | Senate recess. |
Oct. 24 | University of London, London Conference on a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone. London. |
Oct. 24 | United Nations Day. |
Oct. 27 | 4:00 p.m., Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, "2011-2012 Drell Lecture." Stanford University, Oak Lounge, Tresidder Memorial Union, Palo Alto, CA. |
Oct. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision on theSupplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM. |
Oct. | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director George Miller retires. Livermore, CA. |
Oct. | Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction meeting of the Global Partnership Working Group. Paris. |
Oct. | Arab Institute for Security Studies, "Laying the Grounds for 2012--Opportunities for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security." Location TBA. |
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 announced yet.) |
Nov. 7 | Eid Al-Adha. |
Nov. 8 | U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial races in Kentucky and Mississippi and numerous mayoral races. |
Nov. 8 | Kansas City, MO, ballot initiative to prohibit nuclear weapons parts production at the new National Nuclear Security Administration plant in Kansas City (possible). |
Nov. 11 | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperationforeign ministers meeting. Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu. |
Nov. 11 | Veterans Day (federal holiday). |
Nov. 12-13 | President Obama hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Hawai'i Convention Center, Honolulu. |
Nov. 17-18 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
Nov. 19 | President Obama attends an East Asia Summit. Bali, Indonesia. President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao meet on the sidelines of the summit. |
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 announced yet.) |
Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving (holiday). |
Nov. 26 | 20th anniversary of the last British nuclear weapon test, "Bristol." Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
Nov. 28-Dec. 2 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands. |
Nov. | U.N.-South Korea Conference on Disarmament and Nonproliferation. Jeju, South Korea. |
Dec. 4 | Russian Duma elections. |
Dec. 5-22 | Biological Weapons Convention review conference. Geneva |
Dec. 8 | Congress adjourns (tentative). |
Dec. 10 or 11 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. City TBA, IA. Broadcast on ABC. |
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. 13 | 20th anniversary of the Quadripartite Agreement, between Argentina, Brazil, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials, allowing full-scope IAEA safeguards of Argentine and Brazilian nuclear facilities. |
Dec. 20 | Hanukkah begins at sundown. Through Dec. 28. |
Dec. 22 | First 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. 26 | 20th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union. |
Early Dec. | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a G-8 foreign ministers meeting. Kuwait. |
Dec. | India test launches its new Agni V intermediate-range ballistic missile (possible). Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India. |
Dec. or Jan. | Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits Washington (estimate). |
TBA | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision on the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, TN. |
TBA | National Nuclear Security Administration issues additional record(s) of decision on the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. |
TBA | Indonesia's People's Representative Council (House of Representatives) ratifies the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (possible). Jakarta, Indonesia. (Indonesia is one of nine remaining countries that must ratify the treaty for it to enter into force.) |
TBA | Iran resumes talks on its nuclear program, with the P5+1 (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). Istanbul, Turkey. |
TBA | North Korea resumes six-party talks on its nuclear program with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and United States (possible). Beijing. |
2012 | |
Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
Jan. 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report 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. |
Jan. 2 | New Year's Day observed (federal holiday). |
Jan. 2 | U.S. Air Force submits to Congress a report on bomber modernization, sustainment, and recapitalization (Public Law 111-383, Sec. 1056.). |
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. 12 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Iowa Public Television, Johnston, IA. Broadcast on PBS and video webcast on YouTube. |
Jan. 16 | Conference on Disarmament first session for 2012 begins. Through March 23 (estimate). Geneva. |
Jan. 16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
Jan. 19 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Charleston, SC. Broadcast on CNN. |
Jan. 29 | Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future submits its final report to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. |
Jan. 29 | 10th anniversary of President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. |
Jan. 30 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Sioux City, IA. Broadcast on Fox News. |
Jan. 30 | Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report 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 to Congress an annual report on a plan to secure nuclear weapons, material, and expertise in the former Soviet Union (22 U.S. Code Sec. 5952 note). |
Jan. 31 | President Obama submits to the Senate an annual report on the implementation of the New START Treaty (New START Treaty, Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(10)). |
Late Jan. or early Feb. | 9:00 p.m. EST, President Obama gives the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. House Chamber, Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN, broadcast on other networks, and video webcast on the White House website. |
Feb. 1 | Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress an annual report 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 | First anniversary of the New START Treaty entering into force. |
Feb. 5 | President Obama submits to the Senate an annual report 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., 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 | Iowa presidential caucuses (estimate). |
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). |
Between Feb. 7-13 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Manchester, NH. Broadcast on ABC. |
Feb. 14 | New Hampshire presidential primary (estimate). |
Feb. 15 | Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the effectiveness of the ballistic missile defense system (10 U.S. Code Sec. 2431 note). |
Feb. 15 | Missile Defense Agency submits to Congress an annual report on acquisition baselines (Public Law 111-383, Sec. 225). |
Feb. 15 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on the mixed oxide (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2566). |
Feb. 18 | Nevada presidential caucuses (estimate). |
Between Feb. 19-27 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. City TBA, SC. Broadcast on Fox News. |
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. Nevada Test Site, now the Nevada National Security Site. |
Feb. 28 | South Carolina presidential primary (estimate). |
Feb. | Republican presidential debate. Manchester, NH. Broadcast on ABC. |
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 theDefense Department website. |
March 1 | Defense Department, with the National Nuclear Security Administration, submits to Congress a biennial report on the nuclear triad (Public Law 111-383, Sec. 1054). |
March 1 | Defense and Energy Departments submit to Congress a report on the criteria and the methodology determining the safety and security of nuclear weapons (Public Law 111-383, Sec. 1063). |
March 4-6 | American Israel Public Affairs Committee, annual policy conference. Washington. |
March 5 | Time TBA, Republican presidential debate. Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA. |
March 5 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
March 6 | "Super Tuesday," with presidential caucuses and primaries in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, and New York (estimates). Note: Presidential caucuses and primaries after Super Tuesday are not listed. |
March 11 | First anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Fukushima, Japan. |
March 11 | Russian presidential election (estimate). |
March 19-21 | 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 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 26-27 | President Obama attends the Second Nuclear Security Summit. Seoul, South Korea. |
March 31 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on its plutonium "pit" production plan Senate Report 108-105, p. 110. |
March | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for surplus plutonium disposition at the Savannah River Site, SC. |
March | Center for Energy and Security Studies, Moscow Nonproliferation Conference (estimate). Moscow. |
March-April | U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations. |
April 6 | Good Friday. |
April 6 | Passover begins at sundown. Through April 13. |
April 8 | Easter. |
April 9 | National Day of Nuclear Technology. Iran. |
April 12 | Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress an annual report on Iran's capability to produce nuclear weapons (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367 note). |
April 16 | 25th anniversary of the Missile Technology Control Regime. |
April 22 | French presidential election. |
April 27 | South Korean National Assembly elections (estimate). |
April 29 | 15th anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention entering into force. Also the due date for the United States and Russia to destroy their remaining stocks of chemical weapons. Both countries will miss the due date. |
April 30-May 11 | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) preparatory committee (PrepCom) for the 2015 review conference. Vienna, Austria. |
April | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision on theSupplemental Environmental Impact Statement for surplus plutonium dispositionat the Savannah River Site, SC. |
May 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual nuclear stockpile stewardship and management plan (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2523) and a plan for the modernization and refurbishment of the nuclear security complex (Public Law 111-383, Sec. 113). |
May 11 | 14th anniversary of the Indian nuclear test, "Pokhran II." Pokhran, Rajasthan, India. |
May 15-22 | President Obama hosts a G-8 summit and a NATO summit. Chicago. Adoption of the NATO Defense and Deterrence Posture Review is on the NATO summit agenda. |
May 24 | 10th anniversary of the signing of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT or Moscow Treaty), by President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow. |
May 28 | Memorial Day (holiday). |
May 28 | 14th anniversary of the first Pakistani nuclear test, "Chagai I." Chagai Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan. |
June 4 | International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. |
June 12 | 30th anniversary of a demonstration by one million people in support of the U.N. Special Session on Disarmament. Central Park, New York. |
June 13 | 10th anniversary of withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty by President George W. Bush. |
June | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a final site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
June | French National Assembly elections. |
July 4 | Independence Day (holiday). |
July 16 | Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM. |
July 20 | Ramadan begins at sundown. Through Aug. 18. |
July | National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decision for the site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
TBA | Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction (may be delayed until 2013). Location TBA. |
An email version of the Nuclear Calendar is published every Monday morning when Congress is in session. Subscribe on FCNL's website.
The editor is