Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, National
Security Policy; Arms Control and Disarmament, Volume III
List of Abbreviations
- ABM, anti-ballistic
missile system
- AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission
- AFOAT, Air Force
Assistant for Atomic Energy
- AFOAT–1, surface
and air burst nuclear test detection system
- AFTAC, Air Force
Technical Applications Center
- AICBM,
anti-intercontinental ballistic missile system
- ALBM, air-launched
ballistic missile
- ARPA, Advanced
Research Projects Agency
- ASW, antisubmarine
warfare
- BMEWS, ballistic
missile early warning system
- BOB, Bureau of the
Budget
- BOMARC,
surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile
- BW, biological
warfare
- Cahto, series
indicator for telegrams from Secretary of State Herter when away from Washington
- CEA, Council of
Economic Advisers
- CEG, Comparative
Evaluation Group
- CEP, circular error,
probable—a measure of missile accuracy
- CF, Conference
Files
- CFEP, Council on
Foreign Economic Policy
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CONUS, Continental
United States
- CRAF, Civil Reserve
Air Fleet
- CVA, conventionally
powered aircraft carrier
- CVAN, nuclear powered
aircraft carrier
- CW, chemical
warfare
- Del, delegation
- Denuc, series
indicator for telegrams from the Delegation to the Geneva Conference on the
Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests
- Deptel, Department
of State telegram
- DEW line, distant
early warning air defense installations in northern Canada
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DOS, Department of
State
- Dynasoar,
rocket-launched long-range space glider project
- ECM, electronic
countermeasures
- ELINT, intelligence
from intercepted electromagnetic signals
- EURATOM, European
Atomic Agency
- FAA, Federal Aviation
Administration
- FY, fiscal year
- GAO, General
Accounting Office
- HE, high
explosive
- IAEA, International
Atomic Energy Agency
- ICBM,
intercontinental ballistic missile
- IDO, International
Disarmament Organization
- IGY, International
Geophysical Year
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
- IOC, initial operating
capability
- IRBM,
intermediate-range ballistic missile
- ISA, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Department of
Defense
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- JSOP, Joint Strategic
Operations Plan
- JSPS, Joint Strategic
Planning Staff
- JSTPS, Joint
Strategic Target Planning Staff
- KT, kiloton
- M, Office of the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- MAAG, Military
Assistance Advisory Group
- MAP, Military
Assistance Program
- MATS, Military Air
Transport Service
- MRBM, medium-range
ballistic missile
- MSP, Mutual Security
Program
- MT, megaton
- NAC, North Atlantic
Council
- NASA, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NATO, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- Niact, night action;
communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any
hour
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- n.m., nautical
mile
- NOA, new obligational
authority
- Noforn, no foreign
dissemination
- NORAD, North
American Air Defense Command
- NSA, National Security
Agency
- NSC, National Security
Council
- NSTPS, National
Strategic Target Planning Staff
- NTL, national target
list
- Nusup, series
indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Delegation to
the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests
- OCB, Operations
Coordinating Board
- OEEC, Organization
for European Economic Cooperation
- OCDM, Office of
Civilian Defense Mobilization
- ODM, Office of Defense
Mobilization
- ONR, Office of Naval
Research
- OSD, Office of the
Secretary of Defense
- PACOM, Pacific
Command
- P.L., Public Law
- Q–1, a seismic measure
of magnitude
- R&D, research and
development
- reftel, reference
telegram
- RG, Record Group
- S, Office of the
Secretary of State
- SAC, Strategic Air
Command
- SACEUR, Supreme
Allied Commander, Europe
- S/AE, Special
Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs
- S&L, supply and
logistics
- Secto, series
indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State or his delegation to the
Department of State
- SIOP, Single
Integrated Operational Plan
- SLAM, supersonic
low-altitude missile
- SNIE, Special
National Intelligence Estimate
- SOR, Specific
Operating Requirement aircraft (long-range jet powered cargo
aircraft)
- S/P, Policy Planning
Staff, Department of State
- S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
- STRAC, Strategic
Army Corps
- Supnu, series
indicator for telegrams from the
- Tocah, series
indicator for telegrams to Secretary of State Herter when away from Washington
- Tosec, series
indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State or his delegation
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- UNDC, United Nations
Disarmament Commission
- USA, United States
Army
- USAF, United States
Air Force
- USDel, United States
Delegation
- USIA, United States
Information Agency
- USMC, United States
Marine Corps
- USN, United States
Navy
- USSR, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
- VELA, project
designed to improve detection of nuclear tests
- VOA, Voice of
America
- WSEG, Weapons System
Evaluation Group