(FCNL) Nuclear Calendar

January 25, 2005

Friends Committee on National Legislation

Nuclear Calendar

Jan. 5-25

House of Representatives recess

Jan. 24

9-10:30 p.m., HBO, Dirty War, a hypothetical story of how a terrorist "dirty bomb" attack might be planned and executed in London

Week of Jan. 24

House Appropriations Committee chairman Jerry Lewis (CA) proposes Appropriations subcomittee chairmen to the House Republican Steering Committee.

Jan. 24-April 1

Conference on Disarmament, first session. Geneva

Jan. 25

Pete Lyons, aide to Sen. Pete Domenici (NM), takes office as a Nuclear Regulatory Commission commissioner.

Jan. 26

9:30 a.m., Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, confirmation vote on Samuel Bodman to be Energy Secretary. 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

Jan. 26

Noon- 2 p.m., Brad Roberts, Institute for Defense Analyses, "The Nuclear Dimension of a Taiwan Crisis: Misperception, Miscalculation, and Instability." Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington. RSVP to Jennifer Yi at jyi.

Jan. 26

Senate floor vote on the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.

Jan. 27

2-4 p.m., Grigorii Pasko, former Russian naval captain, "Prospects for Russian Nuclear-Powered Submarine Dismantlement: A Discussion of Current Progress and Challenges." Global Green USA, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Suite 600. RSVP by Jan. 24 to Janina de Guzman at jdeguzman or (202) 222-0700.

Jan. 28

Noon-1:30 p.m., Michael Nacht, University of California at Berkeley, "U.S. Counterproliferation Policy." Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Fifth Floor Conference Room, Washington. RSVP to dis.

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 for 2004 was due Jan. 31, 2004 and is overdue.)

Jan. 31

National Nuclear Security Administration reports to Congress on the requirements for the Modern Pit Facility (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 3111).

Jan. 31-Feb. 2

Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission meeting. Cairo, Egypt

Jan. 31-Feb. 4

International Atomic Energy Agency, Forum on Experience of Possible Relevance to the Creation of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East. Vienna, Austria

Feb. 2

2:30-4 p.m., Pavel Podvig, "Russian Perspectives on the Bush Administration's Military Space Policies and Programs." Stimson Center, 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Ninth Floor, Washington. RSVP to Michael Katz-Hyman at mkatzhyman or (202) 223-5956, ext. 3472.

Feb. 2

9 p.m. EST, President Bush delivers the State of the Union address to Congress.

Feb. 3

9:30-11:30 a.m., Arms Control Association, "Fulfilling the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty's Promise" with Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker; Roberto Abdenur, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States; Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment; and Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington. RSVP by Jan. 26 online.

Feb. 3

11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Rep. David Hobson (OH), "U.S. Nuclear Security in the 21st Century." Sponsored by the Arms Control Association. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington. RSVP by Jan. 26 online.

Feb. 7

President submits the federal budget to Congress

Feb. 7

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 report for 2004 was due Feb. 2, 2004 and is overdue.)

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