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3-D three-dimensional

ABM anti-ballistic missile

ACRR Annular Core Research Reactor

ADM atomic demolition munition

AEA Atomic Energy Act

AEC Atomic Energy Commission

AEHF advanced extremely high frequency

AFAP artillery fired atomic projectile

AFB Air Force Base

AFTAC Air Force Technical Applications Center

AG Attorney General

ALCM air-launched cruise missile

Alt alteration

ANWFZ African Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone

ANFO ammonium nitrate and fuel oil

AO action officer

AoA analysis of alternatives

APEX adaptive planning and execution

AR active ready

AS active stockpile

ASD(NCB) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs

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ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ATSD(AE) Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy

B Bomb

BA budget authority

BCR Baseline Cost Report

BDA battle damage assessment

BES Budget Estimate Submission

C Confidential

C4I command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence

CAC Compartmented Advisory Committee

CANES Comprehensive Atmospheric Nuclear Environments Standard

CANWFZ Central Asian Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone

CAS-D Continuous-At-Sea-Deterrent

CBR congressional budget resolution

CBRN chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear

CCD coded control device

CCDR Combatant Commander

CCJO Capstone Concept for Joint Operations

CDMC Consolidated Depleted Uranium Manufacturing Capability

CCMD Combatant Command

CDRUSSTRATCOM Commander, United States Strategic Command

CDS command disablement system

CEP circular error probable

cGy centigray

CHE conventional high explosive

CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

CJCSI Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction

CMRR Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building Replacement

CNWDI Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information

COMSEC Communications Security

CONOP concept of operation

CONPLAN concept plan; operation plan in concept format

CONUS continental United States

CPF contractor protective forces

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CPPNM Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials

CR continuing resolution

CSOG CBRN Survivability Oversight Group

CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

CTBTO Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

CTR cooperative threat reduction

CUI Controlled Unclassified Information

D-test destructive test

DARHT dual axis radiographic hydrodynamic test

DAS Defense Acquisition System

DASA Defense Atomic Support Agency

DASD(NM) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters

DCA dual-capable aircraft

DE damage expectancy

DGZ desired ground zero

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DHS/CWMD DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

DIA Defense Intelligence Agency

DNA Defense Nuclear Agency

DNDO Domestic Nuclear Detection Office

DoD Department of Defense

DoDD Department of Defense Directive

DoDI Department of Defense Instruction

DoDM Department of Defense Manual

DOE Department of Energy

DOE O Department of Energy Order

DOJ Department of Justice

DOS Department of State

DOTMLPF-P doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy

DP Defense Program

DPF Dense Plasma Focus

DPG Defense Planning Guidance

DRAAG Design Review and Acceptance Group

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DRB Defense Resources Board

DTRA Defense Threat Reduction Agency

DU depleted uranium

DUE domestic uranium enrichment

DUU deliberate unauthorized use

DLI direct laser impulse

EAM emergency action message

EIVR Exchange of Information by Visit and Report

EMP electromagnetic pulse

EMR electromagnetic radiation

ENDS enhanced nuclear detonation safety

EO Executive Order

ERDA Energy Research and Development Agency

FAB-T Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals

FAW Future Air-Delivered Warhead

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBM fleet ballistic missile

FBR fast burst reactor

FBW Future Ballistic Missile Warheads

FCS Federal Customs Service (of Russia)

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FFRDC federally funded research and development center

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

FOUO For Official Use Only

FPU first production unit

FRD Formerly Restricted Data

FSU former Soviet Union

FRP fire-resistant pit

FWDR Final Weapon Development Report

FPF federal protective forces

FXR flash X-ray machine

FY fiscal year

FYDP Future Years Defense Program

FYNSP Future-Years Nuclear Security Program

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GA gun assembly

GBSD ground-based strategic deterrent

GEF Guidance for Employment of the Force

GICNT Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism

GLBM ground-launched ballistic missile

GLCM ground-launched cruise missile

Global ASNT Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal

GOC Global Operations Center

GSP graded security protection

GZ ground zero

HE high explosive

HEAF High Explosives Application Facility

HEMP high-altitude electromagnetic pulse

HERMES high-energy radiation megavolt electron source

HEU highly enriched uranium

HLG High Level Group

HOB height of burst

HRP Human Reliability Program

HWR heavy-water reactor

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile

ICD Interface Control Document

IHE insensitive high explosive

IND improvised nuclear device

INF intermediate-range nuclear forces

IOC initial operational capability

IS inactive stockpile

ITW/AA Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment

J/kg joules per kilogram

JAIEG Joint Atomic Information Exchange Group

JCIDS Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System

JCPOA Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

JILT Joint Integrated Laboratory Test

JIPP Joint Integrated Project Plan

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JNWPS Joint Nuclear Weapons Publications System

JOE joint operating environment

JOPES Joint Operation Planning and Execution System

JOWOG Joint Working Group

JP Joint Publication

JRN Joint Atomic Information Exchange Group Reference Number

JROC Joint Requirements Oversight Council

JS Joint Staff

JSR Joint Surety Report

JTA joint test assembly

JTSMG Joint Theater Surety Management Group

KCNSC Kansas City National Security Campus

keV kiloelectron-volt

kg kilogram

kt kiloton

LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory

LANSCE Los Alamos Neutron Science Center

LAP4 Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project

LBTS large blast thermal simulator

LD50 lethal dose for 50 percent of the population

LE life extension

LEP life extension program

LEU low-enriched uranium

LIHE light-initiated high explosive

LINAC linear accelerator

LLC limited-life component

LLCE limited-life component exchange

LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LPF Lithium Processing Facility

LRSO long-range standoff

LTBT Limited Test Ban Treaty

LWR light-water reactor

MAR Major Assembly Release

MBS Modular Bremsstrahlung Source

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MCCS multiple-coded control switch

MDA Missile Defense Agency

MDA mutual defense agreement

MILCON military construction

MILPERS military personnel

MIL-STD Military Standard

MIR major impact report

MIRV multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle

MK mark

MLC Military Liaison Committee

MMIII Minuteman III

MMPU Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network Program Upgrade

M&O management and operating

MOA memorandum of agreement

Mod modification

MOU memorandum of understanding

MPC&A Material Protection, Control, and Accounting

MT megaton

mV/m millivolt to meter

NAOC National Airborne Operations Center

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NC2 nuclear command and control

NC3 nuclear command, control, and communications

NCCS Nuclear Command and Control System

NDAA National Defense Authorization Act

NDS National Defense Strategy

NEWS nuclear explosive and weapons surety

NGE+ Neutron Generator Enterprise Consolidation

NIF National Ignition Facility

NMCC National Military Command Center

NMS National Military Strategy

NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration

NNSS Nevada National Security Site

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NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command

NPG Nuclear Planning Group

NPR Nuclear Posture Review

NPT Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty)

NRF National Response Framework

NSDD Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence

NSE Nuclear Security Enterprise

NSI national security information

NSPD National Security Presidential Directive

NSPM National Security Presidential Memorandum

NSS National Security Strategy

NSTCA Nuclear Security Threat Capabilities Assessment

NSWC Naval Surface Warfare Center

NTD nuclear threat device

NTNF national technical nuclear forensics

NTR nuclear threat reduction

NTRG Nuclear Trafficking Response Group

NTS Nevada Test Site

NU natural uranium

NWC Nuclear Weapons Council

NWCSC Nuclear Weapons Council Standing Committee

NWCSSC Nuclear Weapons Council Standing and Safety Committee

NWCWSC Nuclear Weapons Council Weapons Safety Committee

NWD nuclear weapon data

NWDA Nuclear Weapons Deployment Authorization

NWRWG Nuclear Weapons Requirements Working Group

NWSM Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum

NWSP Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Plan

NWSS nuclear weapon security standard

NWSSG Nuclear Weapon System Safety Group

NWTI nuclear weapons technical inspection

OAU Organization of African Unity

OCA original classification authority

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ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence

O&M operations and maintenance

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OPLAN operation plan

OSCC Open Skies Consultative Commission

OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense

OUO Official Use Only

P3 U.S.-UK-France

PA probability of arrival

PAL permissive action link

PBD program budget decision

PBR president’s budget request

PCI pulsed current injection

PCTFE polychlorotrifluoroethylene

PD probability of damage

PDD Presidential Decision Directive

PDM Program Decision Memoranda

PLS prelaunch survivability

PNET Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty

PNI Presidential Nuclear Initiative

PNVC Presidential and National Voice Conferencing

POE point of entry

POG Project Officers Group

POM Program Objective Memorandum

POTUS President of the United States

PPBE Planning, Programming and Budgeting, and Evaluation (DOE)

PPBE Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (DoD)

PPD Presidential Policy Directive

PPE personal protective equipment

PPI process prove-in

PRAP personnel reliability assurance program

PRC People’s Republic of China

PRP Personnel Reliability Program

PRS plasma radiation source

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PSP Personnel Security Program

psi pounds per square inch

PTP probability to penetrate

Pu-239 plutonium-239

Pub. L. Public Law

PX Pantex Plant

RAAC Rack Assembly and Alignment Complex

RD radius of damage

RD Restricted Data

RDD radiological dispersal device

RDT&E research, development, test, and evaluation

RED radiological exposure device

RG-Pu reactor-grade plutonium

ROPA Report on Platform Assessments

ROSA Report on Stockpile Assessments

RPD Requirements and Planning Document

RS readiness state

RTG radioisotope thermoelectric generator

S Secret

SAM surface-to-air missile

SAOC survivable airborne operations center

SALT I Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

SALT II Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

SCN shipbuilding and conversion, Navy

SCI Sensitive Compartmented Information

SCT Stockpile Confidence Test

SD statutory determination

SECENG Secretary of Energy

SEP Stockpile Evaluation Plan

SFI significant finding investigation

SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

SLBM submarine-launched ballistic missile

SLCM sea-launched cruise missile

SNL Sandia National Laboratories

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SNM special nuclear material

SORT Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

SREMP source-region electromagnetic pulse

SRH strategic radiation-hardened

SRHEC Strategic Radiation-Hardened Electronics Council

SRPPF Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility

SRS Savannah River Site

SSBI single scope background investigation

SSBN ship, submersible, ballistic, nuclear (ballistic missile submarine)

SSM surface-to-surface missile

SSMP Stockpile Stewardship Management Plan

SSNS Satellite System Nuclear Survivability

SSP Stockpile Stewardship Plan

SSP Strategic Systems Programs

START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

ST&E science, technology, and engineering

STS stockpile-to-target sequence

TA-55 LANL plutonium facility technical area

TACAMO take charge and move out

TCC Transformation Coordinating Committee

TCG-NAS-2 Joint DOE/DoD Topical Classification Guide for Nuclear Assembly Systems, March 1997

TFF Tritium Finishing Facility

TFNI Transclassified Foreign Nuclear Information

Th thorium

TNF technical nuclear forensics

TNT trinitrotoluene

TREE transient radiation effects on electronics

TRS thermal radiation source

TS Top Secret

TTBT Threshold Test Ban Treaty

U Unclassified

U-235 uranium-235

U-238 uranium-238

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UCNI Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UGT underground nuclear test

UPF Uranium Processing Facility

UQS unique signal

USAF United States Air Force

USC United States Code

USD(AT&L) Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics

USD(A&S) Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Logistics

USD(P) Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

USD(R&E) Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

USEUCOM United States European Command

USG United States Government

USSOCOM United States Special Operations Command

USSTRATCOM United States Strategic Command

VCJCS Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

VHF very high frequency

VLF very low frequency

W warhead

WDCR Weapon Design and Cost Report

WETL Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory

WG-HEU weapons-grade highly enriched uranium

WG-Pu weapons-grade plutonium

WMD weapons of mass destruction

WRD&T Weapons Research, Development, and Testing

WS3 weapon storage and security system (United States) weapon security and survivability system (NATO)

WSR weapon system reliability

WSV weapon storage vault