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Global Security Engagement: A New Model for Cooperative Threat Reduction
FTE Full-Time Equivalent
G8 Group of Eight
G8 GP G8 Global Partnership
GAO Government Accountability Office
GICNT Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
GP Global Partnership
GSE Global Security Engagement
HEU Highly Enriched Uranium
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HSC Homeland Security Council
IED Improvised Explosive Device
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
ICP International Counterproliferation
ISTC International Science and Technology Center
IUPAC International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry
JVE Joint Verification Experiment
LEU Low-Enriched Uranium
MPC&A Material Protection, Control and Accounting
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NCID National Center for Infectious Diseases
NDF Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund
NGO Nongovernment Organization
NIS Newly Independent States
NRC National Research Council
NSC National Security Council
NTI Nuclear Threat Initiative
NWSS Nuclear Weapons Storage Security Program
NWTS Nuclear Weapons Transportation Security Program
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OPCW Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons