1996 Calendar
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Monthly Summaries
January
January 6: Abolition 2000 Meeting in San Francisco
January 15: 10th anniversary, Gorbachev Zero Option Speech
January 22: National Call-in Day/CTBT
January 22-March 29: Conference on Disarmament Session I/Geneva
January 22-24: First Meeting of the Canberra Commission/Canberra
January 24: 50th anniversary UNGA first resolution calling for
"elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all
other weapons of mass destruction"
January 25: BAN! January Issue
January 27: Nevada Day--45th anniversary of first nuclear test at
the Nevada Test Site
February
February: French Nuclear Testing Stops
February 3: U.S. Abolition Meeting/Philadelphia
February 25: BAN! - February Issue
March
March: Public Hearings in the US on the future of the Nuclear
Weapons Complex.
March 1: Bikini Day--42nd anniversary of U.S. "Bravo" hydrogen
bomb shot in Marshall Is.
March 2-3-4: Edinburgh Peace Festival/Abolition 2000 Network Meeting
March 26: California Primary for U.S. elections
March 27: Three-Mile Island Day--17th anniversary of nuclear
power plant failure at Three Mile Island, PA
April
April 1 - 4: Nuclear Abolition Summit at Nevada Test Site -
April: Month-long actions around the world recalling the 10th
anniversary of the Chernobly nuclear power accident
April 1-8: Healing Global Wounds/Nevada Test Site, USA/Days of
action opposing the six proposed subcritical nuclear tests at the
NTS.
April 5-26: British Atomic Mirror Pilgrimage
APRIL 14-17: Citizen's Lobby Days On Radioactive Waste Policy
April 24-26: Disarmament Conference at the UN
April 26: Chernobyl Day: 10th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear
accident
April: G7 Nuclear Summit in Lyon
April: Judgement Day: advisory opinion from the ICJ on
nuclear weapons expected
May
May 9: IPB - Brussels Conference on Nuclear Abolition
May 13-June 28: CD Session II/Geneva
June
June: Russian elections
June 15: CND major action at Faslane, Scotland, site of British
Trident Base.
June 15-21: World Renewable Energy Congress IV/Denver,
CO/Sponsored by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
June 18: First "subcritical" test at Nevada Test Site: "Rebound"
July
July 29-September 13: CD Session III/Geneva
7/96 - World Court Opinion On Legality of Nuclear Weapons, 1996
August
August 12-15: Republican Convention in San Diego, CA (U.S.)
August 26-29: Democratic Convention (U.S.)
August: Canberra Commission Report
August: INES conference in Amsterdam. Workshop on Abolition with
Joseph Rotblat and Zia Mian.
September
September 12: "Holog" Subcritical test at Nevada Test Site
September: CTBT Signing
September: South Pacific Arts Festival/performances focussing on
nuclear issues
September 23: UN General Assembly opens.
October
Police become restless before election
November
November 3, 1996: Thomas arrested because he's interviewed by TV crew at signs in Peace Park
November 4, 1996: Clinton re-elected, and inauguration plans underway
December
12/4/96 - Retired Generals and Admirals Announce Nuclear Weapons are Unnecessary and Unsafe
Proposition One ---- Peace Park