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Abbreviations and Acronyms
AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
ABM Treaty | Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty |
AFB | Air Force Base |
ALTBMD | Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defense |
APS | American Physical Society |
BMD | Ballistic Missile Defense |
CISAC | Committee on International Security and Arms Control |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DPRK | Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
DSP | Defense Support Program |
DTC | Defense Technology Cooperation |
EKS | Edinaia Kosmicheskaia Sistema |
EOR | Engage on Remote |
EPAA | European Phased Adaptive Approach |
FBX radar | Forward-Based X-band radar |
G8 | Group of Eight |
GBI | Ground-Based Interceptor |
GEO | Geosynchronous Earth Orbit |
GMD | Ground-Based Midcourse Defense |
HCoC | The Hague Code of Conduct |
HEO | Highly Elliptical Orbit |
ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
IMEMO | Intstitute of World Economics and International Relations |
INF Treaty | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty |
IRBM | Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile |
ISAB | International Security Advisory Board |
ISIL | Islamic State in Iraq and Levant |
JCPOA | Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action |
LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
LEO | Low-Earth Orbit |
LOR | Launch on Remote |
MDA | Missile Defense Agency |
MEWS | Missile Early Warning System |
MIC | Military-industrial centers |
MRBM | Medium-Range Ballistic Missile |
MTCR | Missile Technology Control Regime |
NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
NASIC | National Air and Space Intelligence Center |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NNSA | U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration |
NORAD | North American Treaty Organization |
NORTHCOM | U.S. Northern Command |
NRC | National Research Council |
PTSS | Precision Tracking Space System |
RAMOS | Russian-American Observation Satellites |
RAS | Russian Academy of Sciences |
SBIRS | Space-Based Infrared System |
SBX radar | Sea-Based X-Band Radar |
SLBM | Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile |
SM-3 | Standard Missile-3 |
SNF | Strategic Nuclear Forces |
SRBM | Short-Range Ballistic Missile |
START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
STSS | Space Tracking and Surveillance System |
TCBM | Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures |
TMD | Theater Missile Defense |
USAF | U.S. Air Force |