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Nuclear Calendar

Note: Calendar events for the next 12 months are on the web-version of the

Nuclear Calendar at www.fcnl.org/NuclearCalendar.

 

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 reservations. 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 communications or (202) 797-6105.

 

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 Libby_Turpen.

 

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

 

 

 

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