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Sunday, April 3, 2011

[DK GreenRoots] Nuclear Calendar

Don't know how I got on the list but I get the Nuclear Calendar from the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobbying group, http://fcnl.org/.  It is an interesting resource as you can see:

April 3-6Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, DC Days. Equality Center, 1640 Rhode Island Ave,, NW; Washington (April 3), and Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, 322 Fourth St., NE, Washington (April 4-6). Register online.
April 45:00-6:30 p.m., George Quester, George Washington University, "The Last Time We Were at Zero." George Washington University, 1957 E St., NW, Lindner Family Commons, Sixth Floor, Washington. RSVP online.
April 4-6PONI (Project on Nuclear Issues) spring conference. J.W. Marriott, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas, NV. Registration is now closed.
Week of April 4House Budget Committee, markup of the budget resolution for fiscal year 2012. 210 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Video and audio webcast on the committee website.
Week of April 4House and Senate floor action on a conference report on the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, H.R. 1 (possible). Broadcast and video webcast on C-SPAN and C-SPAN2.
April 4-22U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations.
April 511:30 a.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget, with Thomas D'Agostino, Administrator, NNSA; and other witnesses TBA. Room TBA, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. May be video webcast on the committee website depending on room location.
April 57:00-9:00 p.m., Dick Duda and Ray Schuster, "Recovering the Vision of Reykjavik: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons." Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston Rd., Palo Alto, CA. Additional sessions on April 12, 19, and 26. RSVP by email.
April 5Second anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech on nuclear weapons.
April 5Director of National Intelligence, with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, submits to Congress a report on the threat from dirty bombs (Public Law 111-259, Sec. 344).
April 5-9Police departments in the New York City area (CT, NJ, and NY) hold a"dirty bomb" exercise.
April 6 or laterUnited States and Russia resume on-site inspections of each other's nuclear weapons facilities under the New START Treaty.
April 7Noon-1:30 p.m., Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council; Ariel Cohen, Heritage Foundation; and Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, "Next Steps in Iran Sanctions: Targeting the Choke Points." Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium, 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Washington. RSVP online. Video webcast on the Heritage website.
April 8Sixth Continuing Resolution for appropriations expires (Public Law 112-6).
April 8Nuclear Security Summit sous-sherpas meeting. Vienna, Austria.
April 8-10Global Zero hosts GZ|DC 2Ø11, a convention that includes policy negotiation seminars and advocacy, media, and campaigning workshops. George Washington University, Washington, DC. Registeronline.
April 9National Day of Nuclear Technology. Iran.
April 116:30 p.m., screening of Hibakusha, Our Life to Live. George Fox University, Lemmons 8, Newberg, OR.
April 11-12National Academy of Sciences, meeting of the committee preparing the report The Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy's National Security Laboratories. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
April 128:00-9:00 a.m., Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ), "Senate Perspectives on Iran, Missile Defense, and Nuclear Deterrence." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by email.
April 12Director of National Intelligence submits an annual report to Congress on Iran's capability to produce nuclear weapons (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367 note).
April 138:00-9:00 a.m., James Miller, Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, "Nukes, Missile Defense, and U.S. Security." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by email.
April 13-15Biological Weapons Convention preparatory meeting for the review conference (Dec. 5-22, 2011). Geneva.
April 148:00-9:00 a.m., Rep. Michael Turner (OH), "HASC Perspectives on Strategic Issues." Part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. At the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue by email.
April 147:00-8:30 p.m., Avner Cohen, Monterey Institute, book discussion of The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb. University of California, I-House Great Hall, San Diego, CA. RSVP online.
April 14-15Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a NATO foreign ministers meeting. Berlin.
April 15President Obama submits an annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT or Moscow Treaty), (Treaty Document 107-8, Sec. 2(2)).
April 15State Department submits an annual report to Congress on arms control compliance (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2593a). Previous reports are posted on the State Department website.
April 16-May 1House and Senate spring recess.
April 18Passover begins at sundown. Through April 26.
April 18-25Nevada Desert Experience, "Sacred Peace Walk," commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Las Vegas, NV, to the Nevada National Security Site. Register online.

An email version of the Nuclear Calendar is published every Monday morning when Congress is in session. Subscribe on FCNL's website. Unsubscribe by sending an email tonuclearcalendar-unsubscribe@fcnl.org.

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