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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Acronyms." National Research Council. 2005. Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11265.
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Appendix B
Acronyms


ABM

Anti-ballistic missile


CTBT

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

CSA

Canned subassembly

CTR

Cooperative threat reduction


FMCT

Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty


G8

Group of 8

GTRI

Global Threat Reduction Initiative


HEU

Highly enriched uranium

HTGR

High-temperature gas-cooled reactor


ICBM

Intercontinental ballistic missile

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

INF

Intermediate range nuclear forces


JCIC

Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission, START I


LEU

Low enriched uranium

LWR

Light-water reactor


MOX

Mixed oxide of plutonium and uranium

MPC&A

Material protection, control, and accounting


NEM

Nuclear-explosive materials

NPT

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

NTM

National Technical Means


PSI

Proliferation Security Initiative

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Acronyms." National Research Council. 2005. Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11265.
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SALT

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

SWU

Separative work unit

SHA

Secure hash algorithm

SLBM

Submarine-launched ballistic missile

START

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty


WMD

Weapons of mass destruction

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Acronyms." National Research Council. 2005. Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11265.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Acronyms." National Research Council. 2005. Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11265.
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In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: To what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the verification of all nuclear weapons—strategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployed—plus the nuclear-explosive components and materials that are their essential ingredients? The committee's assessment of the technical and organizational possibilities suggests a more optimistic conclusion than most of those concerned with these issues might have expected.

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