Abbreviations and Terms

• ABM, Anti-Ballistic Missile
• ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ACDA/SP, Bureau of Strategic Programs, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ACM, Advanced Cruise Missile
• ACSG, Arms Control Support Group
• ACVC, Arms Control Verification Committee
• AFB, Air Force Base
• ALCM, Air-Launched Cruise Missile
• ALPS, Accidental Launch Protection System
• ASAT, Anti-Satellite
• ASD, Assistant Secretary of Defense
• ASW, Anti-Submarine Warfare
• ATB, Advanced Technology Bomber (B2 “stealth bomber”)
• ATBM, Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile
• AWACS, Airborne Warning and Control System

• B, Billion
• BMD, Ballistic Missile Defense
• BSTS, Boost Surveillance and Tracking System
• BW, Biological Weapons

• C, Confidential; (Office of the) Counselor, Department of State
• CH, Charles Hill
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CJCS, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• CM, Cruise Missile
• CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
• COB or C.O.B., Close of Business
• COG, Continuity of Government
• CONUS, Continental United States
• CORRTEX, Continuous Reflectometry for Radius Versus Time Experiments (a hydrodynamic yield measurement for nuclear testing)
• CTB, Comprehensive Test Ban
• CW, Chemical Weapons
• C-W-P, Carlucci-Whitehead-Powell
• CY, Calendar Year
• Cs, Command, Control, and Communications
• C3I, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence

• DAB, Defense Acquisition Board
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• DEPSEC, Deputy Secretary
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DOE, Department of Energy
• DSP, Defense Support Program

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• EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse
• ERIS, Exoatmospheric Re-Entry Vehicle Interceptor Subsystem
• EUR, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
• EUR/RPM, Office Security and Political Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
• EUR/SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
• Exdis, Exclusive Distribution

• FCC, Frank C. Carlucci
• FOC, Full Operational Capacity
• FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
• FSED, Full-Scale Engineering Development
• FY, Fiscal Year
• FYI, For Your Information

• GBSTS, Ground-Based Surveillance and Tracking System
• GLCM, Ground-Launched Cruise Missile
• GNP, Gross National Product
• GRIP, National Security Council channel for sensitive arms control matters with limited distribution

• HASC, House of Representatives Armed Services Committee
• HOE, Homing Overlay Experiment
• HLV, Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle
• HMG, Her Majesty’s Government

• IC, Intelligence Community
• ICBM, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
• IG, Interagency Group; Interdepartmental Group
• ILC, International Law Commission
• INF, Intermediate Nuclear Forces
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• IOC, Initial Operational Capacity

• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
• JMP, John M. Poindexter

• KGB, Soviet Committee for State Security
• KKV, Kinetic Kill Vehicle
• KT, Kiloton(s)

• LCI, Legally Correct Interpretation (of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)
• LPAR, Large Phased Array Radar
• LPS, Limited Protection System
• LRINF, Long(er) Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
• LTBT, Limited Test Ban Treaty
• LTG, Lieutenant General
• LWIR, Long-Wave Infrared

• M, (Office of the) Under Secretary of State for Management; Million
• MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction (or Mutual and Assured Destruction)
• MaRV or MARV, Maneuverable Re-Entry Vehicle
• MC, Military Committee (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• MIRV, Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicle
• MM, Minuteman Missile
• MPS, Multiple Protective Shelter
• MUSE, National Security Council channel for Interim Restraint Study with limited distribution
• MV, Miniature Vehicle
• MX, Missile eXperimental

• NAC, North Atlantic Council (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• NASA, National Aeronautical and Space Administration
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NCA, National Command Authority
• Niact, Night Action
• Nocontract, Not Releasable to Contractors
• Nodis, No Distribution
• Noforn, Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSDD, National Security Decision Directive
• NSPG, National Security Planning Group
• NST, Nuclear and Space Talks
• NTM, National Technical Means

• OJCS, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• OMB, Office of Management and Budget
• OPP, Other Physical Principles
• Orcon, Originator’s Control
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• OSTP, Office of Science and Technology Policy (White House)

• PENAID, Penetration Aid
• PM, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
• PM/SNP, Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
• PN, Paul Nitze
• PNE, Peaceful Nuclear Explosion
• PNET, Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty
• PROFS, Professional Office System (White House electronic mail)

• R&D, Research and Development
• RCM, Robert C. McFarlane
• RDT, Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation
• RI, Restrictive Interpretation
• RSVP, Responding to Soviet Violations Policy
• RV or R.V., Re-entry Vehicle

• S, Office of the Secretary of State; Secret
• SACG, Senior Arms Control Group; Special Arms Control Group
• SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
• SAM, Surface-to-Air Missile
• S/ARN, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Arms Control Matters
• SASC, Senate Armed Services Committee
• SBI, Space-Based Interceptor
• SBKKV, Space-Based Kinetic Kill Vehicle
• SCC, Standing Consultative Commission
• SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative
• SDIO, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
• SDS, Strategic Defense System
• SecDef, Secretary of Defense
• Septel, Separate Telegram
• SIOP, Single Integrated Operational Plan
• SLBM, Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
• SLCM, Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile
• SLOC, Sea Line of Communication
• SMP, Strategic Modernization Program
• SNDV, Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicle
• S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State; after May 7, 1985, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• SRAM, Short-Range Attack Missile
• SRINF, Short(er) Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• SSBN, Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear
• S/S–O, Operations Center, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• SSTS, Space Surveillance and Tracking System
• STM, Significant Technical Milestone
• START, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks; Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
• S-W-P, Shultz-Weinberger-Poindexter; Shultz-Weinberger-Powell

• TLAM, Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
• TRW, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., a U.S. aerospace and defense contractor
• TTBT, Threshold Test Ban Treaty

• UK, United Kingdom
• UNODIR, Unless Otherwise Directed
• US or U.S., United States
• USA, United States Army
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USG, United States Government
• USMC, United States Marine Corps
• USN, United States Navy
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• VOA, Voice of America
• V/R, Very Respectfully

• Wnintel, Warning Notice Intelligence Sources and Methods Involved

• Z, Zulu Time Zone (Greenwich Mean Time)
• ZBM, Zero Ballistic Missiles