Nuclear Calendar

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Nuclear Calendar

Note: The next edition of the Nuclear Calendar will be published Tuesday,

February 22. February 21 is a federal holiday in Washington.

 

Feb. 14 President submits an $81 billion supplemental appropriations request to

Congress, including funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Feb. 14 South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon meets with Secretary of State

Condoleezza Rice. Washington

 

Feb. 14 4 p.m., Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), " Is Libya the Future of North Korea? "

School of Advanced International Studies, Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building,

1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington. RSVP to fpi or (202)

663-5831.

 

Week of Feb. 14 Missile Defense Agency repeats Integrated Flight Test 13C

(IFT-13C), a system test with no planned intercept (tentative). Kodiak Island,

AK and Reagan Test Site, Marshall Islands. (The original test was conducted Dec.

15, 2004 and was a failure.)

 

Week of Feb. 14 or 21 CIA's Iraq Survey Group, headed by Charles Duelfer,

publishes its final report on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (tentative).

 

Feb. 15 9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the Energy

Department's nuclear weapons budget with Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. 216

Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

 

Feb. 15 9:30 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the

nominations of Robert Zoellick to be Deputy Secretary of State. 419 Dirksen

Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

 

Feb. 15 5 p.m., House Appropriations Committee, meeting to complete

reorganization of subcommittees. 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington.

Not webcast

 

Feb. 15 President reports 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)). (Annual report. The

report due Feb. 15, 2004 is 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).

 

Feb. 15-17 Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh meets with Pakistani

Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri. Islamabad, Pakistan

 

Feb. 16 10 a.m., House Armed Services Committee, 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.

 

Feb. 16 10 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the State

Department budget with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 419 Dirksen Senate

Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

 

Feb. 16 10 a.m., Senate Intelligence Committee, hearing on the world threat to

the U.S. 216 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on

CapitolHearings.org.

 

Feb. 16 10:30 a.m., House International Relations Committee, hearing on " U.S.

Policy toward Iran: Next Steps " with Mark Palmer, Committee on the Present

Danger, and Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. 2172

Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

 

Feb. 16 1 p.m., House International Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East

and Central Asia and the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and

Nonproliferation, joint hearing on " Iran: A Quarter-Century of State-Sponsored

Terror " with Yonah Alexander, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; Matthew

Levitt, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; William Daugherty, former

Iranian hostage; and Steven Kirtley, former Iranian hostage. 2172 Rayburn House

Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

 

Feb. 16 2 p.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export

Financing, and Related Programs, hearing on the State Department budget for FY

2006 and supplemental request for FY 2005 with Secretary of State Condoleeza

Rice. 2350 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

 

Feb. 17 9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the Defense

Department budget with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs of

Staff chairman Gen. Richard Myers. 216 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington.

Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

 

Feb. 17 2 p.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on the

Defense Department budget with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. 2359 Rayburn

House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

 

Feb. 17 2 p.m., House International Relations Committee, hearing on the State

Department budget with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 2172 Rayburn House

Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

 

Feb. 19 8-9:30 a.m., " Atomic Legacies: Broadening the Perspective " with David

Kaiser, Harvard University; Angela Creager, Princeton University; John Beatty,

University of British Columbia; and Itty Abraham, Social Sciences Research

Council. Part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual

meeting. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington

 

Feb. 19 Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and Defense Agency Director

General Yoshinori Ono meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Washington

 

Feb. 19-27 House and Senate Presidents' Day recess

 

Feb. 20 1:45-4:45 p.m., " The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime " with

Mark Fitzpatrick, State Department's Bureau of Nonproliferation; Stephen Cohen,

Brookings Institution; David Albright, Institute for Science and International

Security; Rose Gottemoeller, Carnegie Endowment; Daryl Kimball, Arms Control

Association, and Paul Longsworth, Energy Department's Office of Defense Nuclear

Nonproliferation. Part of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science annual meeting. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington

 

Feb. 20 Atomic Testing Museum opens. Las Vegas, NV

 

Feb. 21 Presidents' Day (federal holiday)

 

Feb. 21-25 President Bush meets with French President Jacques Chirac (Feb. 21,

Brussels, Belgium), attends NATO summit (Feb. 22, Brussels), meets with German

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (Feb. 23, Mainz, Germany), meets with Russian

President Vladimir Putin (Feb. 24, Bratislava, Slovakia), and meets with British

Prime Minister Tony Blair (Feb. 25, London).

Week of Feb. 21 Russia and Iran sign an agreement on Russian fuel shipments for

the Bushehr nuclear power plant, as part of Russian atomic energy chief

Alexander Rumyantsev's visit to Tehran (tentative).

 

Feb. 25 9 a.m.-2 p.m., George Washington University, " Reorienting U.S. Relations

with the Koreas: Negotiating Nukes, Nationalisms, and National Interests. " Panel

I (9-10:30 a.m.): Reorientations in Korea and East Asia, with Mike Mochizuki,

George Washington University; Charles Armstrong, Columbia University; Yougshik

Bong, Wellesley College and George Washington University; and James Seymour,

Columbia University. Panel II (10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.): Reorienting U.S. Policy,

with John Feffer, Asian Perspectives; J.J. Suh, Cornell University; and Karin

Lee, Friends Committee on National Legislation. RSVP to gsigur.

 

Feb. 25-27 Swedish Network for Nuclear Disarmament, " Reaching Nuclear

Disarmament: New Challenges and Possibilities. " Stockholm, Sweden

 

Feb. 28 International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna,

Austria

 

Feb. 28 or later 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.

 

Week of Feb. 28 House of Representatives floor action on the Energy Policy Act

of 2005 (possible). The bill does not cover nuclear weapons funding, but may

have nonproliferation issues.

 

Week of Feb. 28 or March 7 House Appropriations Committee, markup of the

supplemental appropriations bill (estimate)

 

 

 

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