| AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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| ABM |
Anti-ballistic missile |
| ABMA |
Army Ballistic Missile Agency |
| AEC |
Atomic Energy Commission |
| AFSWP |
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project |
| ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| ASAT |
Anti-Satellite (i.e., weapons) |
| CNO |
Chief of Naval Operations |
| DASA |
Defense Atomic Support Agency |
| DNA |
Defense Nuclear Agency |
| DOD |
Department of Defense |
| ELF |
Extremely low-frequency |
| EMP |
Electromagnetic pulse |
| ICBM |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| IGY |
International Geophysical Year |
| JCAE |
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JTF |
Joint Task Force |
| JTF-8 |
Joint Task Force 8 |
| LLNL |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
| NACA |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NOTS |
Naval Ordnance Test Station |
| PSAC |
President’s Science Advisory Committee |
| SUI |
State University of Iowa |
| TF 88 |
Task Force 88 |
| TI |
Texas Instruments |
| UCRL |
University of California Radiation Laboratory |