Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee On National Legislation --3/7

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March 8 9 a.m.-noon, Woodrow Wilson Center, "Renewing NORAD" with six speakers. At the Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Fifth Floor Conference Room, Washington, and the Munk Centre for International Studies, Toronto. Webcast on the Wilson Center web site.

March 8 4 p.m., House Appropriations Committee, markup of the supplemental appropriations bill. 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

March 8 Special primary election for California 5th Congressional District, to replace former Rep. Bob Matsui

March 9 Time TBA, House Budget Committees, markup of the budget resolution, 210 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

March 9 10 a.m., House Appropriations on Energy and Water, hearing on the Energy Department budget with Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. 2362B Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

March 9 10 a.m., Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, hearing on the nomination of Clay Sell to be Deputy Energy Secretary (and other nominations). 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

March 9 12:30 p.m., former Sen. Sam Nunn, Nuclear Threat Initiative. Luncheon speech. National Press Club Ballroom, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington. RSVP ($35, $16 students) to [e-mail]. Broadcast and webcast on National Public Radio.

March 9 2 p.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, and Commerce hearing on the State Department budget with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

March 9 3 p.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on space activities with Peter Teets, Undersecretary of the Air Force for Space; Gen. Lance Lord, Commander, Air Force Space Command; Lt. Gen. Larry Dodgen, Commander, Army Space and Missile Defense Command; Vice Adm. Joseph Sestak, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Warfare Requirements and Programs; and Brig. Gen. Thomas Benes, Director, Strategy and Plans Division, Marine Corps. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

March 10 Time TBA, Senate Budget Committee, markup of the budget resolution. 608 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

March 10 10 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, hearing on the Energy Department's nuclear weapons and nonproliferation budgets with National Nuclear Security Administration administrator Linton Brooks. 2362B Rayburn House Office Building, Washington (closed)

March 10 10 a.m., Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, hearing on the Environmental Management and Radioactive Waste Management programs of the Energy Department. 116 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

March 10 10:30 a.m., House International Relations Committee, hearing on "The Korean Peninsula: Six Party Talks and the Nuclear Issue" with former Defense Secretary William Perry and former U.S. ambassador to South Korea James Lilley. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

March 10 3 p.m., House Armed Services Committee, continued hearing on the Defense Department budget with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Richard Myers. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

March 11 2-4 p.m., Chris Hill, Ambassador to South Korea, "A Regional Discussion of the Six-Party Process: Challenges and Opportunities in North Korea." Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington. RSVP at online or at [e-mail] or [phone].

March 11-14 Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice. Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, Arlington, VA

March 12-May 1 International Peace Walk from the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant, TN to the United Nations

March 14 11 a.m.-noon, Peter Huessy, National Defense University Foundation; Keith Payne, National Institute for Public Policy; and Baker Spring, Heritage Foundation, "The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century." Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave., N.E., Washington. RSVP online. Webcast on the Heritage web site.

March 14-16 Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission meeting. New Delhi, India

Week of March 14 House and Senate floor action on the budget resolution (tentative)

Week of March 14 House floor action on the supplemental appropriations bill (tentative)

Week of March 14 Britain, France, and Germany continue talks with Iran on limiting its nuclear program. Paris (estimate)

March 15 9 a.m., House Armed Services Committee, hearing on missile defense programs with Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, Missile Defense Agency director, and Lt. Gen. Larry Dodgen, Army Space and Missile Defense Command. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

March 15 Noon, Paul Longsworth, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, Energy Department "The Global Threat Reduction Initiative." Location TBA. Part of the Security for a New Century series. For information, contact Libby Turpen at [e-mail].

March 15 President submits to Congress the annual assessment of the nuclear weapons stockpile by the nuclear weapons laboratories and the U.S. Strategic Command (Public Law 107-314, Sec. 3141). (Annual report. The report due March 15, 2004 is overdue.)

March 15 Defense Department submits to Congress an interim space posture review of national security space policy and strategy (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 911).

March 15 Energy Departments submits to Congress an annual stockpile stewardship plan (42 U.S. Code Sec. 2121 note, amended by Public Law 108-136, Sec. 3133). (Annual report. The report due March 15, 2004 is overdue.)

March 15 Energy Department submits an interim report to Congress on its Global Threat Reduction Initiative (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 3132).

March 16 10 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, hearing on the Energy Department's nuclear waste disposal and environmental management budgets. 2362B Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

March 16 10 a.m., House Armed Services Committee, hearing on the Air Force budget with acting Air Force Secretary Peter Teets and Air Force chief of staff Gen. John Jumper. 2218 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

March 16-18 International Atomic Energy Agency, International Conference on Nuclear Security: Global Directions for the Future. London

March 17 9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on current and future worldwide threats to the United States with CIA director Porter Goss and Defense Intelligence Agency director Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby. 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

March 17 10 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on the Air Force budget with acting Air Force Secretary Peter Teets and Air Force chief of staff Gen. John Jumper. H-140 Capitol Building, Washington. Not webcast

March 19-20 Second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. Calendar of events.

March 20-25 Nevada Desert Experience, "Interfaith Holy Week Peace Walk." Las Vegas to the Nevada Test Site, NV

March 21-22 UN Institute for Disarmament Research, China, Russia, and the Simons Foundation, "Safeguarding Space Security: Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space." Geneva

March 25 Good Friday

March 27 Easter

Week of March 28 President's WMD Commission (Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction) issues its report (estimate).

March 31 Noon, Doug Bandow and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute, "The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled relations with North and South Korea." Sponsored by the Cato Institute. B-354 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. RSVP by noon, March 30 online or to [e-mail] or [phone].

March 31 Nuclear Regulatory Commission issues a construction permit to Duke, Cogema, Stone & Webster for a mixed oxide (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, SC to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants (tentative).

March Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Nicholas Burns to be Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs

March Senate Intelligence Committee, hearing on the nominations of John Negroponte to be national intelligence director and Lt. Gen. Mike Hayden to be deputy national intelligence director

March President Bush nominates the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (estimate)

March State Department merges the Bureau of Arms Control and the Bureau of Nonproliferation (estimate)

March Energy Department ships mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from France to the Catawba nuclear power plant by sea via Charleston, SC.

March CIA's Iraq Survey Group, headed by Charles Duelfer, publishes its final report on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (estimate).

Late March Duke, Cogema, Stone & Webster applies to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an operating license for a mixed oxide (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, SC to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants (estimate).

March or April Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of Peter C.W. Flory to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (possible)

March or April Senate Intelligence Committee releases its report on the White House's influence on Iraq WMD intelligence (estimate).

March or April National Academy of Sciences reports to Congress on the effects of nuclear earth-penetrator weapons (Public Law 107-314, Sec. 1033) (estimate; was due May 31, 2003).

April 1 Defense Department, Energy Department, and Central Intelligence Agency jointly report to Congress on activities to develop weapons to destroy deeply buried targets (10 U.S. Code Sec. 2358 note). (Annual report. The report due April 1, 2004 is overdue.)

April 1 Conference on Disarmament, first session ends. Geneva

April 5 or 6 Senate Appropriations Committee, markup of the supplemental appropriations bill (estimate)

April 6 10 a.m., Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on the Air Force budget with acting Air Force Secretary Peter Teets and Air Force chief of staff Gen. John Jumper. 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

April 10-13 Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, DC Days. Washington

April 11-15 American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Missile Defense Agency, Third Missile Defense Conference and Exhibit. Reagan Building, Washington

Week of April 11 Senate floor action on the supplemental appropriations bill (estimate)

April 15 President reports to Congress on the implementation of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), or "Moscow Treaty" (Treaty Document 107-8, Sec. 2(2)). The previous report is posted on FCNL's web site.

April 22 Earth Day

April 26-28 Mexican Foreign Ministry, meeting of countries party to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone treaty. Mexico City

April 27 10 a.m., Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on the Defense Department budget with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Richard Myers. 192 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

April 29-30 Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, "Full Spectrum Resistance: An International Space Organizing Conference." Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York (April 29), and Musicians Union Hall, 322 W. 48th St., New York (April 30)

April 30-May 8 Senate recess

April Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Islamabad, Pakistan (possible)

April or May Senate Foreign Committee, hearing on the nominations of Christopher Hill to be Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Joseph DeTrani to be ambassador for the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program (estimates)

April or May Missile Defense Agency conducts Integrated Flight Test 15 (IFT-15) (estimate). Kodiak Island, AK and Reagan Test Site, Marshall Islands

April or May Missile Defense Agency reports to Congress on the results of Integrated Flight Test 13C (IFT-13C). (House Report 108-553, pp. 340-1) (The report was originally due Aug. 15, 2004. The test, which was a failure, was delayed from July 2004 to Dec. 15, 2004.)

April or May Energy Department completes a study of the requirements for the nuclear weapons complex over the next 20 years (estimate).

April or May Energy Department completes a study on the down blending of large quantities of highly enriched uranium stored at the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant, TN (estimate).

Spring National Academy of Sciences releases its report on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy for a New Century (estimate).

Spring International Atomic Energy Agency, conference to amend the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (tentative). Vienna, Austria

May 1 Defense Department reports to Congress on counterproliferation programs (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2751 note). Previous reports are posted on the Defense Department web site.

May 1 Abolition Now and United for Peace and Justice, rally and march for nuclear disarmament. Central Park's Great Lawn (location tentative), New York

May 2 9 a.m.-6 p.m., City University of New York, "From Ground Zero to Safe Ground: The Growing Nuclear Threat and Its Eradication." 365 Fifth Ave., New York. RSVP ($25, $15 students) to [e-mail] or [phone].

May 2-27 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. United Nations. Calendar of events in New York during the NPT review conference.

May 5 British parliamentary elections (estimate)

May 13 Iranian presidential election

May 20 President reports to Congress on nonproliferation and threat reduction objectives (Public Law 107-228, Sec. 1339).

May 28-June 5 House and Senate Memorial Day recess

May 30 Memorial Day (holiday)

May 30-July 15 Conference on Disarmament, second session. Geneva

May House Armed Services Committee, markup of the defense authorization bill, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the Energy Department (estimate)

May House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, which includes the nuclear weapons programs of the Energy Department (estimate)

May Duke Energy loads the lead test assemblies of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in the Catawba nuclear power plant. Rock Hill, SC

May Duke, Cogema, Stone & Webster begins site preparation for the Energy Department of a mixed oxide (MOX) plant to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants (tentative).

May or June NATO foreign ministers meeting

June 13 International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. Selection of the director general is on the agenda. Mohamed ElBaradei, the current director general, is seeking reappointment.

June 13-24 Biological Weapons Convention meeting of experts. Geneva

June 27-July 2 Washington and Lee University, Teaching Nonproliferation Summer Institute: Integrating Science and Politics in the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Lexington, VA. Apply by

April 1 online.

June NATO defense ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium

July 2-10 House and Senate Independence Day recess

July 4 Independence Day (holiday)

July 6-8 G8 summit. Perthshire, Scotland

July 9 50th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto

July 15-17 Peace Action annual national congress. Wayne State University, Detroit

July 16 60th anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM

July 18-Aug. 5 UN Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations

July 30-Sept. 5 House and Senate summer recess

July India and Pakistan complete an agreement on advance notification of missile tests (tentative).

Summer Energy Department selects a contractor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM.

Summer NATO completes a missile defense feasibility study.

Aug. 1 Tibor Toth of Hungary becomes the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Vienna, Austria

Aug. 5-7 Nevada Desert Experience, "August Desert Witness." Las Vegas and the Nevada Test Site, NV

Aug. 6 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing

Aug. 6-Sept. 5 Senate summer recess

Aug. 8-Sept. 23 Conference on Disarmament, third session. Geneva

Aug. 9 60th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing

Sept. 1-4 American Political Science Association annual meeting. Omni Shoreham Hotel and Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington

Sept. 5 Labor Day (holiday)

Sept. 11 Fourth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

Sept. 14-16 Millennium +5 Summit. United Nations

Sept. 19 International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria

Sept. 25-27 WAND/WiLL national conference. Washington Court Hotel, Washington

Sept. 26 President Bush addresses the UN General Assembly (estimate). United Nations

Sept. 26-30 International Atomic Energy Agency general conference. Vienna, Austria

Sept. 30 Congress adjourns (tentative).

Sept. 30 University of California's current contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM) ends.

Sept. Missile Defense Agency completes upgrades of the early warning radars at RAF Fylingdales, United Kingdom.

Sept. Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. United Nations

Oct. 1 Federal budget year begins.

Oct. 1 30th anniversary of the "Safeguard" missile defense system, which was armed with nuclear-tipped warheads, Nekoma, ND. The system was deactivated four months later.

Oct. 3 International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria

Oct. 4 Rosh Hashanah

Oct. 10 Columbus Day (federal holiday)

Oct. 13 Yom Kippur

Oct. 14 Nobel Peace Prize is announced. Oslo, Norway

Oct. 24 United Nations Day

Oct.-Nov. UN General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations

Nov. 1 Defense Department reports to Congress on measures between the U.S. and Russia to reduce the risk of an accidental nuclear missile launch (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 1214).

Nov. 7-8 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference. Reagan Building, Washington

Nov. 7-11 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands

Nov. 8 Election Day with gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia and mayoral elections in many cities

Nov. 10-13 Friends Committee on National Legislation annual meeting. Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington

Nov. 11 Veterans Day (federal holiday)

Nov. 15-16 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation foreign ministers meeting. Busan, South Korea

Nov. 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Busan, South Korea

Nov. 24 Thanksgiving (holiday)

Nov. 24 International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria

Dec. 1 International Atomic Energy Agency director general begins a new term. Mohamed ElBaradei, the current director general, is seeking reappointment. Vienna Austria

Dec. 5-9 Biological Weapons Convention annual meeting. Geneva

Dec. 10 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. Oslo, Norway

Dec. 18 35th anniversary of "Baneberry," the underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site which released a large cloud of radioactivity 10,000 feet above the ground

Dec. 25 Christmas

Dec. 26 Christmas observed (holiday) and Hanukkah

Dec. 31 Defense Department submits to Congress a final space posture review of national security space policy and strategy (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 911).

Dec. Missile Defense Agency deploys a sea-based X-band radar, a floating platform, near Adak, AK.

Dec. NATO foreign ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium

Dec. NATO defense ministers meeting. Brussels, Belgium
2006

Jan. 1 Energy Department submits a final report to Congress on its Global Threat Reduction Initiative (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 3132).

Jan. 1 Energy Department reports to Congress on the status of nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting programs in Russia and other countries (22 U.S. Code Sec. 5952 note). (Annual report. The report due Jan. 1, 2005 is overdue.)

Jan. 2 New Year's Day observed (holiday)

Jan. 3 Congress convenes (estimate).

Jan. 16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday)

Jan. 31 President reports to Congress on a plan to coordinate and integrate nonproliferation activities (22 U.S. Code Sec. 5952 note). (Annual report. The report due Jan. 31, 2005 is overdue.) Included as an appendix is the annual report to Congress on how the Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) 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)), which is due Feb. 15 of each year. The most recent report is posted on the House Armed Services Committee web site.

Jan. Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by Hans Blix, issues its report.

Late Jan. or early Feb. President Bush delivers the State of the Union speech to Congress.

Feb. 6 President submits the federal budget to Congress.

Feb. 6 Defense Department submits to Congress its Quadrennial Defense Review (10 U.S. Code Sec. 118), which may include decisions on U.S. nuclear weapons policy and forces.

Feb. 6 Central Intelligence Agency reports to Congress on the number of Russian strategic nuclear warheads dismantled under the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), or "Moscow Treaty" (Public Law 108-136, Sec. 1033). (Annual report. The reports due Feb. 2, 2004 and Feb. 7, 2005 are overdue.)

Feb. 15 Energy Department reports to Congress on the mixed oxide (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, SC (Public Law 107-314, Sec. 3182). The previous report is posted on FCNL's web site.

Feb. 20 Presidents' Day (federal holiday)

March 1 Defense Department and Energy Department submit to Congress a strategic nuclear force structure plan (Public Law 107-314, Sec. 1031). (Annual report. The report due March 1, 2004 is overdue.)

March 31 Energy Department reports to Congress on its plutonium "pit" production plant (Senate Report 108-105, p. 110). (Annual report)

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