APPENDIX C:
GLOSSARY
CRDF
Civilian Research and Development Foundation
CTR
Agreement on the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation, 1991 (Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program)
DOD
United States Department of Defense
DOE
United States Department of Energy
Disarmament
The reduction of military forces and equipment
GIF
Generation IV International Forum
HEU
Highly-Enriched Uranium
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
IBRAE RAS
Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
INF
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 1988
INPRO
International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (under the aegis of the IAEA)
INSP
International Nuclear Safety Program
IPPE
Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (Obninsk)
ISTC
International Science and Technology Center
LEU
Low-Enriched Uranium
MNEPR
Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Program in the Russian Federation, 2003
MOD
Ministry of Defense (refers in this report to the Russian Ministry of Defense)
MPC&A
Nuclear material protection, control, and accounting. This acronym refers in a general sense to the protection, control, and accounting of nuclear materials and in a specific sense to the cooperative program run by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Minatom
Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation
NPT
Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1970
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Preventing states or non-state actors who do not currently have a nuclear weapon or nuclear weapons capability from acquiring the materials, technology, and information required to obtain a nuclear weapon or nuclear weapon capability.
SOAE
Agreement on Cooperation in the Elimination of Strategic Offensive Arms, 1995
SORT
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, 2002
SSBN
Strategic Submarine Ballistic Nuclear (nuclear-powered submarine carrying ballistic nuclear missiles).
SSGN
Strategic Submarine Guided Nuclear (nuclear-powered submarine carrying nuclear or conventional cruise missiles).
SSN
Strategic Submarine Nuclear (nuclear-powered attack submarine)
START
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 1991. Now often referenced as START I. Negotiations began on START II and then START III, but they ended in favor of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty.
TTBT
Threshold Test Ban Treaty, 1974
USA PATRIOT Act
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001
VAT
Value-Added Tax
VNIIEF
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov)
VNIITF
All-Russian Research Institute for Theoretical Physics (Snezhinsk)
WMD
Weapons of Mass Destruction
