Nuclear Calendar -- July 21, 2014 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- July 21, 2014 -- Friends Committee on National Legislation
July 21 | Noon-1:15 p.m., Robert Litwak, Wilson Center; Mitchell Reiss, Washington College; and David Sanger, New York Times, "Iran’s Nuclear Chess: Calculating America’s Moves." Wilson Center, Fifth Floor, Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 22 | 9:05 a.m., Gen. William Shelton, Commander, U.S. Air Force Space Command, "The U.S. Future in Space." Atlantic Council, 1030 15th St., NW, 12th Floor, West Tower, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 22 | 12:30-1:30 p.m., Mark Fitzpatrick and Dina Esfandiary, International Institute for Strategic Studies, "The Day After the Deadline: Assessing the Nuclear Negotiations with Iran." International Institute for Strategic Studies, Arundel House, Lee Kuan Yew Conference Room, 13-15 Arundel St., Temple Place, London. RSVP to Lucy O’Sullivan by |
July 23 | 2:00 p.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on "U.S. National Missile Defense and the Growing Threat: Is a “Limited Defense” Enough?" with Phil Coyle, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Robert Joseph, National Institute for Public Policy; and James Woolsey, Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July 24 | 10:00 a.m., Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, hearing on the nomination of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to be Deputy Energy Secretary. 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July 24 | Noon-1:30 p.m., John Caves and Seth Carus, National Defense University, "The Future of WMD in 2030." National Defense University, Lincoln Hall, Room 1119, 300 Fifth Ave., SW, Fort McNair, Washington. Off the record. RSVP to Nima Gerami by |
July 24 | 2:30-4:00 p.m., Steve Gilman, Robert Howarth and Stanley Dienst, Physicians for Social Responsibility, "We Are All on the Front Line." University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1 University Heights, Asheville, NC. |
July 28 | Noon-1:30 p.m., Dennis Ross, former special assistant to President Obama; Eric Edelman, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; Stephen Rademaker, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation; and Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations, "Final Deal with Iran: Outcomes and Next Steps." Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, First Floor Conference Center, 1307 New York Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 28 | 1:15-2:45 p.m., Jung Hoon Kim, Member, South Korea National Assembly, "Changing Security Environment and Geopolitical Dynamics of East Asia." Sponsored by ICAS Liberty Foundation. Location TBA to registrants. Washington. RSVP online. |
July 28 | 3:00-5:15 p.m., Carnegie Endowment and Korea Economic Institute, "Nuclear Politics on the Korean Peninsula," with seven speakers. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online. |
July 28 | Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2014 begins. Through Sept. 12. Geneva. |
Week of July 28 or Sept. | Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of John Tefft to be Ambassador to Russia (possible). 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July 29 | 2:00 p.m., House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, hearing on "Protecting the Homeland from Nuclear and Radiological Threats," with witnesses TBA. 311 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July 30 | 2:00-5:00 p.m., House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on "Twenty-Years of U.S. Policy on North Korea: From Agreed Framework to Strategic Patience," with Glyn Davies, Special Representative for North Korea Policy, State Department; and Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights, State Department. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website. |
July | Senate floor votes on the nominations of Brian McKeon to be Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Madelyn Creedon to be Principal Deputy Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration, Frank Rose to be Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance and Adam Scheinman to be Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation (possible). |
July | Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise submits its final report to Congress (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 3166) (possible). |
July or Sept. | State Department submits to Congress an annual report on arms control compliance (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2593a) (estimate). Delayed from April 15. Previous reports are posted on the State Department website. |
Aug. 1-Sept. 7 | House of Representatives and Senate summer recess. (Senate recess begins Aug. 2.) |
Aug. 2 | 1:00-5:00 p.m., Duyeon Kim, Carnegie Endowment, “Nuclear Security, Nonproliferation, and Extended Deterrence.” Part of International Symposium for Peace 2014: The Road to Nuclear Weapons Abolition. International Conference Center, Nagasaki, Japan. |
Aug. 2-9 | Japan Council against A- & H-Bombs (GENSUIKYO), World Conference Against A- and H-Bombs. Hiroshima (Aug. 2-6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 8-9). |
Aug. 5 | 6:30 p.m., DC Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee, "Hiroshima Peace Commemoration." Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, 1964 Independence Ave., SW, Washington. |
Aug. 6 | 8:16 a.m., anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. A national calendar of commemoration events is provided by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. |
Aug. 6 | 3:00-4:00 p.m., Rick Wayman, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Neisen Laukon, Marshallese Education Initiative; and Erica Fein, Women’s Action for New Direction (WAND), "The Nuclear Zero Lawsuits: Why the Tiny Marshall Islands Took on the Nuclear Nine." Online webinar. Sponsored by Marshallese Education Initiative, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and WAND. Register online. |
Aug. 6 | 6:00-7:00 p.m., Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR) and retired Col. Ann Wright, "The Old and New Faces of Nuclear Weapons." Sponsored by Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility. Japanese American Historical Plaza at Waterfront Park, Portland, OR. |
Aug. 7 | 1:30-3:00 p.m., Duyeon Kim, Carnegie Endowment; Sigfried Hecker, Stanford University; Adam Stulberg, Georgia Tech; Man-sung Yim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; and Joonghong Ahn, UC Berkeley, "Challenges and Prospects for U.S.-ROK Nuclear Cooperation." Part of U.S.-Korea Conference 2014. Hyatt Regency, 1333 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA. Register online. |
Aug. 9 | 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Global Zero, “Bike Around the Bomb.” President’s Park, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. Register online. |
Aug. 9 | 11:02 a.m., anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. A national calendar of commemoration events is provided by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. |
Aug. 15 | Resumption of the P5+1 and Iran nuclear negotiations (estimate). Vienna. |
Aug. 24 | 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. 27 | 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Center for Strategic and International Studies, "PONI 2014 Fall Conference," with 23 speakers. Sponsored by Center for Strategic and International Studies. Kirtland Air Force Base, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Albuquerque, NM. Register by Aug. 8 online. |
Aug. 27-30 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, World Congress. Astana, Kazakhstan. |
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. |
Aug. | National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor. |
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. 4-5 | President Obama attends a NATO summit. Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. |
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. |
Sept. 11 | Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
Sept. 11-14 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, "Action Academy," Berlin. Open to participants age 18-30 from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. Apply by July 20 online. |
Sept. 15 | Missile Defense Agency, due date for comment period on the Environmental Impact Statement for East Coast Missile Defense Site. Scoping meetings held in Ravenna, OH; Galesburg and Battle Creek, MI; Carthage, NY; and Rangeley and Farmington, ME. Notice of meeting locations, dates and times TBA. |
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 | 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. 22-23 | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), "Education for Peace: New Pathways for Securing Chemical Disarmament." OPCW Headquarters, Johan de Wittlaan 32, The Hague, Netherlands. Register by Aug. 10 by |
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 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 (estimate). United Nations. Broadcast on CNN, webcast on the U.N. website and may be webcast on the White House website. |
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. | House and Senate floor action on a Continuing Resolution to continue federal government funding after Sept. 30. |
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. |
Fall | Senate floor action on the National Defense Authorization Act, S. 2410 (estimate). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2. |
Oct. 1 | Federal budget year begins. |
Oct. 1 | Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg takes office as NATO Secretary General. Brussels. |
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, the letter 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 entry 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 | 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. 5 | 20th anniversary of the START I treaty entry into force. The treaty reduced the number of U.S. and Russian deployed strategic nuclear weapons by 80 percent to 6,000 each. |
Dec. 6 | Runoff election for the Louisiana Senate seat, with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) versus the Republican candidate (probable). |
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. 20 | Congressional Budget Office reports to Congress on the 10-year cost of maintaining U.S. nuclear weapons and delivery systems (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 1041). |
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. |
TBA | Obama administration submits to Congress a revised U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defense Agreement, which expires as the end of 2014. |
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 record of decision for theSite-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site. |
TBA | India test launches the Agni V intercontinental ballistic missile. Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India. |
TBA | India test launches the Agni VI intercontinental ballistic missile. Integrated Test Range, Wheeler Island, Orissa, India. |
2015 | |
Jan. 1 | New Year's Day (holiday). |
Jan. 6 | Congress convenes (estimate). |
Jan. 19 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday). |
Feb. 1 | Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories reports to Congress and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (Public Law 113-76, Sec. 319). |
Feb. 16 | Presidents Day (federal holiday). |
March 1 | National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on the budget, objectives and metrics of the nuclear nonproliferation programs (Public Law 112-239, Sec. 3145). |
March 14-17 | Friends Committee on National Legislation, Spring Lobby Weekend. Washington. |
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 | Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller attends the sixth P5 conference. City TBA, United Kingdom. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations (April 27-May 22) is on the agenda. |
April 17-20 | Ecumenical Advocacy Days. DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton Washington DC-Crystal City, 300 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, VA. |
April 27-May 22 | Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review conference. United Nations. |
May 7 | United Kingdom general election. |
Sept. | Pope Francis visits the United States. |
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