ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile
ACA Arms Control Association
ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
AFB Air Force Base
ALCM Air-Launched Cruise Missiles
ASBM Air-Surface Ballistic Missiles
BMEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
C3I Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence
CBM Confidence Building Measures
CCD Charge-Coupled Device
CFE Conventional Forces in Europe (Treaty)
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
COMINT Communications Intelligence
CPD Committee on the Present Danger
DCI Directorate of Central Intelligence
DEW Distance Early Warning
ELINT Electronic Intelligence
EMP Electro-Magnetic Pulse
GAC General Advisory Committee (of ACDA)
GLCM Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles
GNP Gross National Product
HUMINT Human Intelligence
IAEA Intemational Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile
INF Intermediate Nuclear Forces (Treaty)
JCIC Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission
KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Soviet Committee on State Security
KH-# Keyhole
LPAR Large Phased-Array Radar
LTBT Limited Test Ban Treaty
LWIR Long-Wave Infra-Red Radiation
MAD Mutually Assured Destruction
MIDAS Missile Defence Alarm System
MIRV MultipIe, Indedendently-targetable Reentry Vehicles
MRV Multiple Reentry Vehicles
MWIR Medium-Wave Infra-Red Radiation
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NIE National Intelligence Estimates
NRO National Reconnaissance Office
NSC National Security Council
NTM National Technical Means (of verification)
OSI On-Site Inspection
PBV Post-Boost Vehicle
PHOTINT PhotoIntelligence
RADINT Radar Intelligence
RV Reentry Vehicle
SAC Strategic Air Command
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM Surface-Air Missiles
SAMOS Satellite and Missile Observation System
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCC Standing Consultative Commission
SDI Strategic Defence Initiative
SIGINT Signals Intelligence
SLBM Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
SLCM Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks/Treaty
SWIR Short-Wave Infra-Red Radiation
TLI Treaty-Limited Items
UNIDIR United Nations Institute for Disarmarnent Research
WTO Warsaw Treaty Organisation
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