ABBREVIATIONS

ABM	Anti-Ballistic Missile (Treaty)
AMS	(Chinese) Academy of Military Sciences
ASMP	à Air-Sol Moyenne Portée (medium-range air-to-surface missile)
ASOC	Air Sovereignty Operation Centers
AWE	[UK] Atomic Weapons Establishment
BMD	ballistic missile defense
CAEP	Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics
CAI	Cooperative Airspace Initiative
CD	(Geneva) Conference on Disarmament
CDU	Christian-Democratic Union (Germany)
CEA	Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (French Atomic Energy
	Commission)
CEP	circular error probable
CFE	Conventional Forces in Europe
CFSP	Common Foreign and Security Policy
CIRUS	Canada-India-Reactor-United States
CISAC	Committee on International Security and Arms Control
CNS	[Russian] Concept of National Security
CSGAC	Chinese Scientists Group for Arms Control
CSU	Christian Social Union (Germany)
CTBT	Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty
DE	damage expectancy
DOD	[U.S.] Department of Defense
DOE	[U.S.] Department of Energy
EADS	European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.
ENDC	Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee
EPR	European Pressurised Reactor
ESDP	European security and defense policy
FDP	Free Democratic Party (Germany)
FMCI	Fissile Material Control Initiative
FMCT	Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty
GCD	general and complete disarmament
GIRM	Graphite Isotope Ratio Method
HEU	highly-enriched uranium
HLW	high-level radioactive waste
IAEA	International Atomic Energy Agency
ICAN	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
ICBM	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
INF	Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (Treaty)
IPFM	International Panel on Fissile Materials
IISS	International Institute for Strategic Studies
JSTPS	Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff
LANL	Los Alamos National Laboratory
LEU	low-enriched uranium
LLNL	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LOW	launch-on-warning
LUA	launch-under-attack
MAD	mutually-assured destruction
MinAtom	Ministry for Atomic Energy
MIRV	multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicle
MoD	Ministry of Defence
MUF	material unaccounted for
NIE	National Intelligence Estimate
NNSA	National Nuclear Security Administration
NPR	Nuclear Posture Review
NPT	Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRC	National Research Council
NSG	Nuclear Suppliers Group
NWFZ	nuclear weapon free zones
NWS	nuclear weapons states
OECD	Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
PALEN	Préparation à la limitation des essais nucléaires (Preparation for the limitation of nuclear testing)
PNI	Presidential Nuclear Initiative
PrepCom	NPT Preparatory Committee
PTBT	Partial Test Ban Treaty
R&D	research and development
RevCon	Review Conference
RNEP	Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
RRW	Reliable Replacement Warhead
S&T	science and technology
SAC	Strategic Air Command
SALT	Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
SBIRS	Space-Based Infrared System
SDI	Strategic Defense Initiative
SED	Strategic and Economic Dialogue
SIOP	Single Integrated Operational Plan
SLBMs	Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
SM-3	Standard Missile-3
SNEP	Subterranean Nuclear Explosion Project
SORT	(Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty)
SPD	Social Democratic Party (Germany)
SSBNs	nuclear ballistic missile submarines
SSP	Stockpile Stewardship Program
START	Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
THAAD	Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
TNA	tête nucléaire aéroportée [airborne nuclear warhead]
TNO	tête nucléaire océanique [oceanic nuclear warhead]
TNW	tactical nuclear weapons
WMD	weapons of mass destruction