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Jan. 22	Israeli general elections.
Between Jan. 22 and 25	National Security Advisor Tom Donilon meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow.
Between Jan. 22 and 25	Energy Secretary Steven Chu announces his resignation (estimate).
Jan. 23	Noon-1:30 p.m., James Acton, Carnegie Endowment; Elbridge Colby, Center for Naval Analyses; and Steve Pifer, Brookings Institution, "Arms Control 2.0 in Obama 2.0." Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Jan. 23	7:30 p.m., Ward Wilson, book discussion of Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons. Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA.
Jan. 24	10:00 a.m., Senate Foreign Relation Committee, hearing on the nomination of Sen. John Kerry (MA) to be Secretary of State. 216 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Jan. 24	12:15-1:30 p.m., Leonor Tomero, counsel, House Armed Services Committee, "Can Congress Cooperate on Nuclear Weapons?" University of Maryland, 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD.
Jan. 24	1:00-2:30 p.m., Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, former member of Sixth Iranian Parliament; Seyed Aliakbar Mousavi, former member of Sixth Iranian Parliament; George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment; and Jim Walsh, MIT, "A Proposal for the Resolution of the Iranian Nuclear Standoff. Wilson Center, Sixth Floor, Regan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Webcast on the Wilson Center website.
Jan. 24	6:30-8:00 p.m., Amb. Christopher Hill, University of Denver, and Philip Yun, Ploughshares Fund, "Prospects for a Shift in U.S. Policy Towards North Korea" Sponsored by the Sejong Society. At SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building, Room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Jan. 24-Feb. 4	House of Representatives recess.
Jan. 25	12:15-1:45 p.m., Michèle Flournoy, Boston Consulting Group, "Defense Strategy and Spending Trade-Off's. Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA. RSVP online.
Jan. 27	3:00 p.m., Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, "Annual Day of Remembrance for Utah Downwinders," First Baptist Church, Skaggs Memorial Chapel, 777 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City. Email [email protected]" title="Deb Sawyer">Deb Sawyer for information.
Jan. 28	9:00-11:00 a.m., Bijan Khajehpour, Atieh International; Alireza Nader, RAND Corporation; Michael Adler, Woodrow Wilson Center, "The Nuclear Issue: Why is Iran Negotiating?" Wilson Center, Fifth Floor, Regan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. RSVP online.
Jan. 28	10:00-11:30 a.m., Ward Wilson, book discussion of Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons. Harvard University, Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369, Cambridge, MA.
Jan. 29	9:00-10:30 a.m., Elizabeth Turpen, former associate, Booz Allen Hamilton, "Revitalizing the National Security Labs: Beyond the Nuclear Deterrent." George Washington University, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St., NW, Washington. RSVP online.
Jan. 29	7:00 p.m., Ward Wilson, book discussion of Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA.
Jan. 30	Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367).
Jan. 30-Feb. 1	U.N. Conference on Disarmament Issues. Shizuoka, Japan.
Jan. 31	9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (NE) to be Defense Secretary. G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Jan. 31	Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, "Strategic Weapons in the 21st Century." Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington (closed).
Jan. 31	President Obama submits to the Senate an annual report on the implementation of the New START Treaty (New START Treaty, Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(10)).
Jan. 31	President Obama submits to Congress an annual report on a plan to secure nuclear weapons, material and expertise in the former Soviet Union (22 U.S. Code Sec. 5952 note).
Jan.	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.
Jan.	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site.
Jan.	China conducts an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons test in space (possible). Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan, China.
Jan.	Israel Aerospace Industries test launches its Arrow 3 missile for Israel's missile defense system (estimate). Palmachim Air Force Base, Israel.
Jan. or Feb.	Office of Management and Budget returns amended budget requests to federal departments for fiscal year 2014, known as budget passbacks. (Delayed from Nov.)
Jan. or Feb.	Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick appoints a replacement for Sen. John Kerry, who will serve until a special election in June (estimate).
Jan.or Feb.	Obama administration completes the Nuclear Posture Review Implementation Study (estimate).
Jan. or Feb.	P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom and United States) resume negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program (estimate). Istanbul.
Jan.-March	Missile Defense Agency tests a Ground-based Interceptor missile fromVandenberg Air Force Base, CA, against an intermediate-range ballistic missile target launched from Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, Central Pacific Ocean.
Feb. 1	Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress an annual report on the acquisition by foreign countries of technology for the development or production of weapons of mass destruction (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2366). Previous reports are posted on the Director of National Intelligence website.
Feb. 5	President Obama submits to the Senate an annual report on the status of negotiations with Russia on tactical nuclear weapons (New START Treaty,Resolution of Advice and Consent, Sec. (a)(12)(B)).
Feb. 6	9:30-10:30 a.m., Sen. John Hoeven (ND), "The Continuing Case for the Nuclear Triad." Part of the Peter Huessy Congressional Breakfast Series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, Washington. RSVP online.
Feb. 6	Noon-1:30 p.m., Robert Litwak, Wilson Center, "What to do about Nuclear Outliers Iran and North Korea?" George Washington University, Linder Family Commons, 1957 E St., NW, Room 602, Washington. RSVP online.
Feb. 12	9:00 p.m., President Obama gives the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Capitol Building, Washington. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN, broadcast on other TV networks and webcast on the White House website.
Feb. 15	Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the effectiveness of the ballistic missile defense system (10 U.S. Code Sec. 2431 note).
Feb. 15	Missile Defense Agency submits to Congress an annual report on acquisition baselines (10 U.S. Code Sec. 225).
Feb. 15	National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on the mixed oxide (MOX) plant at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2566).
Feb. 15-25	House and Senate Presidents Day recess.
Feb. 17	10:00-11:30 a.m., David Strangway, Quest University; Miaki Ishii, Harvard University; and Raymond Jeanloz, University of California, "Unreasonable Usefulness of Test-Ban Verification for Disaster Warning and Science." Part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. Hynes Convention Center, Boston.
Feb. 18	Presidents Day (federal holiday).
Feb. 18	U.S.-Russian "Megatons to Megawatts" agreement, managed by USEC, expires.
Feb. 19-22	ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums, "Nuclear Deterrence Summit." Renaissance Capital View Hotel, 2800 S. Potomac Ave., Arlington, VA. Registeronline.
Feb. 20	6:30-8:00 p.m., Eugene Gholz, University of Texas, "Iran and the Nuclear End Game: What are the Odds of Peace?." 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston. Registeronline.
Feb. 22	Middle Powers Initiative, "Framework Forum for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World." Berlin.
Feb. 26	Illinois special primary election for the 2nd Congressional District to replace former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (The special Democratic primary election will effectively decide the general election on April 9.)
Feb.	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for the site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada National Security Site.
Feb. or March	Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Rose Gottemoeller to be Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (possible). 419 Dickson Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Feb. or March	U.S. government reaches its debt ceiling.
March 1	Defense Department submits to Congress an annual report on the military power of China (10 U.S. Code Sec. 113 note). Previous reports are posted on theDefense Department website.
March 2-3	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, civil society forum. Oslo, Norway.
March 3-5	American Israel Public Affairs Committee, annual policy conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington.
March 4-5	Norwegian Foreign Ministry, "Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons." Oslo, Norway.
March 4-8	International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna.
March 6	10th anniversary of Senate ratification of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty(SORT), or Moscow Treaty, on a vote of 95 to 0. The treaty reduced the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals from 6,000 deployed strategic nuclear weapons to 2,200 each.
March 16	25th anniversary of 5,000 civilian Kurds being killed in Iraqi chemical weapons attacks. Halabjah, Iraq.
March 16-19	Friends Committee on National Legislation, Spring Lobby Weekend. Washington.
March 22-April 8	House and Senate spring recess. (Senate recess is March 23-April 7.)
March 23	30th anniversary of President Reagan's "Star Wars" speech.
March 25	Passover begins at sundown.
March 25- 29	Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, "Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Short Course." Andromeda Tower, Donau-City Strasse 6, Floor 12, Vienna. Apply by Feb. 1 by [email protected]" title="VCDNP Email">email.
March 27	Continuing Resolution for unfinished appropriation bills for fiscal year 2013 expires.
March 29	Good Friday.
March 29	Conference on Disarmament first session for 2013 ends. Geneva.
March 31	Easter.
March 31	National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual report on its plutonium "pit" production plan (Senate Report 108-105, p. 110).
March	Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget request to Congress (delayed from Feb. 4). Posted on the Office of Management and Budget website.
March	Energy Secretary presents the Energy Department budget (delayed from Feb. 4). Energy Department, Large Auditorium, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington. Posted on the Energy Department website.
March	Defense Department and Energy Department submit to Congress an updated, annual 10-year plan for the nuclear weapons stockpile, nuclear weapons complex and delivery platforms (Public Law 111-84, Sec. 1251) (tentative; delayed from Feb. 4).
March	Pakistani general elections.
April 1-19	U.N. Disarmament Commission annual meeting. United Nations.
April 2	Missouri special election for the 8th Congressional District to replace former Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (estimate).
April 2	Kansas City, MO, votes on a citizen’s initiative to bar city financing for nuclear weapons facilities.
April 5	Fourth anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech on nuclear weapons.
April 5-8	Ecumenical Advocacy Days. DoubleTree Crystal City-National Airport Hotel, Arlington, VA (April 5-7), and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., NE, Washington (April 8).
April 8-9	Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington. Register online.
April 8-19	Chemical Weapons Convention, review conference. The Hague, Netherlands.
April 9	Illinois special election for the 2nd Congressional District to replace former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
April 9	National Day of Nuclear Technology. (Date is an estimate). Iran.
April 10-11	Secretary of State attends a G-8 foreign ministers meeting. London.
April 11	50th anniversary of the encyclical letter Pacem in Terris by Pope John XXIII, which called for an end to the nuclear arms race.
April 12	Director of National Intelligence submits to Congress an annual report on Iran's capability to produce nuclear weapons (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2367 note).
April 14-17	Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, DC Days. Washington.
April 15	Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
April 15	State Department submits to Congress an annual report on arms control compliance (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2593a(a)). Previous reports are posted on theState Department website.
April 19	States Parties to Nuclear Weapon Free Zones, Preparatory Committee meeting. Geneva.
April 22-May 3	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) preparatory committee meeting for the 2015 review conference. Geneva.
April 27-May 5	House and Senate recess.
April	Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Initiative (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Turkey and United Arab Emirates) foreign ministers meeting. The Hague, Netherlands.
May 1	Defense Department submits to Congress a biannual report on counterproliferation programs (22 U.S. Code Sec. 2751 note). Previous reports are posted on theDefense Department website.
May 1	National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2523) and a biennial Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Criteria and Assessment Report (50 U.S. Code Sec. 2522).
May 6-10	International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna.
May 7	Transform Now Plowshares activists go on trial for sabotage at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant at Oak Ridge, TN. U.S. District Count for Eastern Tennessee, U.S. Courthouse, 800 Market St., Suite 130, Knoxville, TN.
May 7	South Carolina special election for the 1st Congressional District to replace former Rep. and now Sen. Tim Scott.
May 11	15th anniversary of the Indian nuclear test, "Pokhran II." Pokhran, Rajasthan, India.
May 13	Conference on Disarmament first session for 2013 begins. Through June 28. Geneva.
May 24-June 2	House and Senate Memorial Day recess. (Senate recess begins May 25.
May 27	Memorial Day (holiday).
May 27	25th anniversary of Senate ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty by a vote of 93 to 5. The treaty eliminated a class of nuclear weapons,
May 28	15th anniversary of Pakistan's first nuclear test. Chagai Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan.
May	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.
May	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the record of decision for theSurplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC.
June 1	25th anniversary of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty entering into force. The treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons.
June 3-7	International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna.
June 10	50th anniversary of President Kennedy's commencement address at American University, where he called for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Washington.
June 10	20th anniversary of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Colin Powell's commencement speech at Harvard University where he said, "And today, I can declare my hope, declare it from the bottom of my heart, that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place." Cambridge, MA.
June 14	Iranian presidential election.
June 17-18	President Obama attends the G-8 summit. Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
June 17-21	Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, "Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Science and Technology Conference 2013." Hofburg Palace, Vienna. Register by Feb. 1 online.
June 24	65th anniversary of beginning of the Berlin Blockade.
June 28	Conference on Disarmament second session for 2013 ends. Geneva.
June 29-July 7	House and Senate Independence Day recess.
June 30	U.S.-Russian umbrella agreement for the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program expires.
June	Massachusetts special election to replace former Sen. John Kerry.
June	National Nuclear Security Administration issues the draft Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and NM.
June	National Nuclear Security Administration issues a record of decisionSupplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.
July 3	20th anniversary of President Clinton's announcement that he would extend the U.S. nuclear testing moratorium.
July 4	Independence Day (holiday).
July 9	Ramadan begins at sundown. Through Aug. 8.
July 16	Anniversary of "Trinity," the first nuclear test. Alamogordo, NM.
July 29	Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2013 begins. Through Sept. 13. Geneva.
July	Russian navy test launches the Bulava ballistic missile from the submarineAlexander Nevsky.
Aug. 5	50th anniversary of the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty by the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and United States. Moscow.
Aug. 6	Anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
Aug. 9	Anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Aug. 29	International Day Against Nuclear Tests.
Aug.	Biological Weapons Convention meeting of experts. Geneva.
Sept. 1	President Obama submits to Congress an annual Global Nuclear Security report on the security of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon material outside the United States (22 U.S. Code Sec. 3244 note).
Sept. 2	Labor Day (holiday).
Sept. 4	Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Through Sept. 6.
Sept. 5-6	President Obama attends the G-20 summit. St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sept. 9	Federal agencies submit their initial budgets to the Office of Management and Budget for fiscal year 2015 (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 3.
Sept. 9-13	International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Sept. 11	12th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Sept. 13	Conference on Disarmament third and final session for 2013 ends. Geneva.
Sept. 13	Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Through Sept. 14.
Sept. 13-16	House of Representatives Yom Kippur recess.
Sept. 16-20	International Atomic Energy Agency general conference. Vienna.
Sept. 21	International Day of Peace.
Sept. 21-29	House of Representatives recess.
Sept. 24	~10:00 a.m., President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly (estimate). United Nations. Broadcast on CNN, video webcast on the U.N. website and may be video webcast on the White House website.
Sept. 24	50th anniversary of Senate ratification of the Limited Test Ban Treaty by a vote of 80 to 19.
Sept. 26	U.N. General Assemble holds a high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament. United Nations.
Sept. 28-Oct. 1	J Street national conference. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington.
Sept.	Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Article XIV Conference). Vienna.
Fall	President Obama attends a NATO summit. Budapest, Hungary.
Fall	German Federal Assembly, or Bundestag, elections (or earlier).
Oct. 1	Federal budget year begins.
Oct. 11	5:00 a.m. EDT (11 a.m. Norwegian time), Nobel Peace Prize announced (estimate). Oslo, Norway.
Oct. 12-21	House and Senate Columbus Day recess. (Senate recess ends Oct. 20.)
Oct. 14	Columbus Day (federal holiday).
Oct. 24	United Nations Day.
Oct. 30	National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers.
Oct. 31-Nov. 11	House of Representatives Veterans Day recess. (The Senate has not scheduled its recess yet.)
Early Oct.	Dutch Foreign Ministry, preparatory meeting for the third Nuclear Security Summit (to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, March 2014). City TBA, Canada.
Oct.	President Obama attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders meeting. Bali, Indonesia.
Nov. 5	U.S. Election Day, with gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, and mayoral elections in many cities.
Nov. 7-13	Friends Committee on National Legislation annual meeting. Washington.
Nov. 11	Veterans Day (federal holiday).
Nov. 14-17	Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), lobby day and annual meeting. Washington.
Nov. 20	30th anniversary of the broadcast of The Day After, a TV movie that depicted a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Nov. 22-Dec. 1	House of Representatives Thanksgiving recess. (The Senate has not scheduled its recess yet.)
Nov. 25-29	International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna.
Nov. 27	Hanukkah begins at sundown. Through Dec. 5.
Nov. 28	Thanksgiving (holiday).
Dec. 1	National Nuclear Security Administration submits to Congress an annual, classified report on the current and projected (1) number of nuclear weapons of each type in the active and reserve stockpiles, (2) strategic rationale for each type and (3) past and projected future total direct life cycle cost of each type (House Report 110-921, p. 125).
Dec. 1	Yukiya Amano begins a second four-year term as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna.
Dec. 2	Office of Management and Budget returns amended budget requests to federal departments for fiscal year 2015, known as budget passbacks (estimate). Final budgets will be submitted to Congress on Feb. 3.
Dec. 2-6	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons annual meeting. The Hague, Netherlands.
Dec. 13	House of Representatives target adjournment.
Dec. 17	75th anniversary of the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman. Berlin.
Dec. 25	Christmas (holiday).
TBA	Conference on a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction(possible). Helsinki.
TBA	Pakistani presidential election.
2014
Jan. 1	New Year's Day (holiday).

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