While the vast majority of prior climbs to the summit have used the western side of the massif from the Branscomb Glacier, the first ascent from the east side was successfully completed by an eight-person team sponsored by NOVA in January 2001.

He has received a multitude of other awards for his reporting, including the Extraordinary Communicator Award from the National Cancer Institute in 2000, four consecutive Gainsbrugh Awards from the Economics Broadcasting Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Excellence in Television Award in 2001 for a NOVA special on the human genome.

He also won the 2001 AAAS Science Journalism Award for his NOVA special, Cracking the Code of Life.

On August 2, 2007, a Russian scientific expedition Arktika 2007 made the first ever manned descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, to a depth of, as part of a research programme in support of Russia's 2001 extended continental shelf claim to a large swathe of the Arctic Ocean bottom.

* Ilya Vinkovetsky, Circumnavigation, Empire, Modernity, Race: The Impact of Round-the-World Voyages on Russia's Imperial Consciousness " Meeting of Frontiers " Conference, 2001

From 2001 to 2009, he was Russia's ambassador to Ukraine.

In 2001, Chester Dunning, a specialist in Russian history at Texas A & M University published the nearly 700-page Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty.

Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty, Penn State Press, 2001 ISBN 0-271-02074-1

Ivanov became Russia's defence minister, becoming the first civilian to hold that post, in March 2001.

Russia's Olga Kuzenkova had a habit of placing second in major internationals – the 1998 Europeans and the 1999 / 2001 / 2003 World Championships, although she had won the 2002 European Championships.

* Russia's Dirty War Against Chechnya, 19 April 2001

In 2001 it started GSM networks throughout Russia's regions, having gradually increased its regional presence to the majority of Russia's territory.

RTVi is owned by Vladimir Gusinsky, the founder of NTV, Russia's first independent TV network, which was acquired by the government in April 2001.

He was incorrectly reported by the command of the Russian forces in Chechnya to have been killed on August 21, 2001, and again on October 12, 2002, eleven days prior to the Moscow theater crisis ( this report of Barayev's death came from Colonel Boris Podoprigora, deputy commander of Russia's Joint Group Forces ).

In March – May 2001, he was chief executive of Russia's TV6 channel, which, like ORT, was partly owned by Berezovsky.

* Russia's 2001 continental shelf claim

* Holger Nehring, ' From Gentleman's Club to Folk Festival: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester, 1958-63 ', North West Labour History Journal, No. 26 ( 2001 ), pp. 18 – 28

* Video of the Nuclear Icebreaker Yamal visiting the North Pole in 2001

Ekéus was High Commissioner on National Minorities at the OSCE from 2001 till 2007, as well as on the board of directors for the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( NTI ).

* Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons, Robert W. Nelson, Federation of American Scientists, January / February 2001, Volume 54, Number 1

In 2001 – 2004, she served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, and served as Adviser on Nuclear Proliferation to Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.

* Big Red: The Three-Month Voyage of a Trident Nuclear Submarine ( 2001 ) ISBN 0-380-82078-1

Yang was Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987 to 2001, was Chairman of the Shanghai Science and Technology Association ( 1992 – 1996 ), and he was the first president of the Association of University Presidents of China ( 1997 – 1999 ).

Nuclear icebreaker Yamal ( icebreaker ) | Yamal on its way to the North Pole in August 2001

In 2001, he became acting Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Programs.

* Nuclear Deterrence, Missile Defenses, and Global Instability by David Krieger, April 2001

Her sixth book, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush ’ s Military Industrial Complex, was published in 2001.

* The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush ’ s Military Industrial Complex ( 2001 and 2004 ).

According to a 2001 Department of Defense report, China has supplied Pakistan with nuclear materials and has provided critical technical assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China is a signatory.

In 2001, Pakistan further consolidated its nuclear weapons infrastructure by placing the Khan Research Laboratories and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission under the control of one Nuclear Defense Complex.

The first report of these documents was in a Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Senior Executive Intelligence brief dated October 18, 2001, titled: " Iraq: Nuclear Related Procurement Efforts ," This information was not considered to be certain and not much was done to promote this claim right away.

* Masters of Moral, Servants of Sin ( Nuclear Blast, 2001 )

* Loot, Shoot, Electrocute ( Split 7 " EP with Benediction under Nuclear Blast, 2001 )

Their 8th studio album was released through Nuclear Blast in October 2001.

Three years later, in an effort to raise money to pay for Chuck Schuldiner's cancer treatment, the footage was limitedly released in October 2001 by Nuclear Blast on CD and DVD formats under the name Live In Eindhoven, two months before Schuldiner's ultimate demise.

( 2001 ) Russian Strategic Nuclear Force.

With a demo in circulation garnishing positive praise and the new line-up concentrating on writing new music, things came to the inevitable head in the Fall of 2001: Nuclear Blast's attention was captured, a record deal was secured, and Thunderstone went into the studio within two weeks of the ink drying.

He also managed local campaigns in San Francisco, including the 1989 Nuclear Free Zone initiative, the 1999 re-election campaign of DA Terrence Hallinan, the 2001 campaign for public power and the March 2002 campaign to elect Harry Britt to the State Assembly.

Several significant events in 2001 persuaded BNFL to upgrade the fuel routes of both Calder Hall and Chapelcross to near modern standards at a cost of tens of millions of pounds to guarantee that a License Instrument would be granted by the NII to permission final defuelling: the engineering work is being carried out by BNS Nuclear Services ( Formally Alstec ).

The self-produced album Act of God ( 1999 ) saw the band signed to Nuclear Blast Records after they had relocated to Sarasota, the same label releasing Round 6 in 2000 and the live album Road Rage in 2001.

* Road Rage ( 2001 ), Nuclear Blast / Spitfire