FCNL: Nuclear Calendar 03 14 05

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Nuclear Calendar

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

 

March 14-17 Senate floor action on the budget resolution, S.Con.Res. 18.

Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.

 

March 14-21 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits India (March 16),

Pakistan (March 17-18), Afghanistan, Japan, South Korea, and China. North

Korea's nuclear program is on the agenda.

 

March 15 9 a.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing

on the missile defense programs with Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, Missile Defense

Agency; Lt. Gen. Larry Dodgen, Army Space and Missile Defense Command; and David

Duma, Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense Department. 2118 Rayburn House

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

 

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

nomination of Joseph DeTrani to be ambassador for the six-party talks on North

Korea's nuclear program. 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast

on CapitolHearings.org.

March 15 Noon-1 p.m., Paul Longsworth, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear

Nonproliferation, Energy Department " The Global Threat Reduction Initiative. "

236 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington. Part of the Security for a New

Century series. For information, contact Libby Turpen at

Libby_Turpen.

 

March 15 1 p.m., House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear

and Biological Attack, hearing on " Nuclear Terrorism: Protecting the Homeland. "

210 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast

 

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 Department submits an interim report to Congress on its Global

Threat Reduction Initiative (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 3132).

 

March 15 & 16 House floor action on the supplemental appropriations bill, H.R.

1268. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.

 

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 3 p.m., Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing

on national security space policy and programs with five witnesses. 222 Russell

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

 

March 16 House floor action on the budget resolution. Broadcast and webcast on

C-SPAN.

 

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 18 10 a.m., House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and

Investigations, hearing on security initiatives at DOE nuclear facilities. 2123

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

 

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 23 France, Germany, and Great Britain continues talks with Iran on its

nuclear program. Paris

 

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).

 

 

 

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