| ABC | Accelerator-based converter |
| ABL | Airborne Laser |
| ACDA | Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
| AEA | Atomic Energy Act |
| AG | Australia Group |
| ALARA | as low as reasonably achievable |
| ALMR | advanced liquid metal reactor |
| ASAT | Anti-satellite weapons |
| ASD(ISP) | Assistant Secretary of Defense |
| ATR | Automatic Target Recognition |
| ATSD(AE) | Assistant to the Secretary of Defensefor Atomic Energy |
| BMDO | Ballistic Missile Defense Organization |
| BPIS | Boost Phase Intercept Study |
| BPISSBL | Boost Phase Intercept Study - Space Based Laser |
| BW/CW | Biological Warfare/Chemical Warfare |
| BWC | Biological Weapons Convention |
| BXA | Bureau of Export Administration |
| C3I | Command Control Comm. Intelligence |
| CALIOPE | Chemical Analysis by Laser -Interrogation of Proliferation effluents |
| CB | Chemical/Biological |
| CBIR | Chemical/Biological Incidence Response |
| CINC | Commanders In Chief |
| CNPC | Community Nonproliferation Committee |
| CNS | Committee on National Security |
| CPAF | Cost-Plus Award Fee |
| CT | Counterterrorism |
| CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| CTR | Cooperative Threat Reduction Program |
| CWC | Chemical Warfare Convention |
| CWC | (PrepCom) Convention Prep. Comm. |
| DE | Directed Energy |
| DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
| DNA | Defense Nuclear Agency |
| DNFSB | Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board |
| DOC | Department of Commerce |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DP | DOE Office of Defense Programs |
| DTAG | Defense Trade Advisory Group |
| DTSA | Defense Technology Security Admin |
| EA | Export Administratlon |
| EA | Environmental Assessment |
| EE | Export Enforcement |
| EH | DOE Office of Environment Safety and Health |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
| EM | DOE Office of EnvironmentalRestoration and Waste Management |
| EMTD | DOE Executive Management Team for Dismantlement |
| EOD | Explosive Ordnance Disposal |
| EPA | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| ERF | Energy Research Foundation |
| FAS | Federation of American Scientists |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FOIA | Freedom of Information Act |
| FSU | Former Soviet Union |
| GESMO | Generic Enviromnental ImpactStatement on Mixed Oxide |
| GBL | Ground Based Laser |
| HE | high explosive |
| HEU | highly enriched uranium |
| HF | High Frequency |
| HTGR | high-temperature gas reactor |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
| IFR | integral fast reactor |
| IHE | insensitive high explosive |
| INA | Int'l Nuc Material Tracking + Analysis |
| INEL | Idaho NationalEngineering Laboratory |
| INF | Intermediate Range Nuc Forces Treaty |
| ISP(ASD) | (International Security Policy) |
| ISTC | International Science and Tech Center |
| ITAR | Int'l Traffic in Arms Regulations |
| IVI | ACDA Bureau of Intelligence Verification and Information Support |
| IWG/CT | Interagency Wking Group/CT |
| JAC | Jnt Advisory Com-Nuc Weapons Surety |
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JDISS | Joint Deployable Intell. Support Sys |
| JWICS | Joint Worldwide Intell. Support Sys |
| KUMSC | Kirtland Undrgrnd Munitns Storge Cmplx |
| LADAR | Laser Radar |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| LET | linear energy transfer |
| LEU | low-enriched uranium |
| LIDAR | Light Detection and Ranging |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
| LWR | light-water reactor |
| M&H | Mason and Hanger-Silas Mason Co. Inc. |
| M&O | management and operations |
| MASINT | Measurement and Signals Intelligence |
| MC&A | Material Control and Accounting |
| MCTL | Military Critical Technologies List |
| MHTGR | modular HTGR |
| MINATOM | Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy |
| MIRV | mult. indepndtly targtabl reentry vehicle |
| MMES | Martin Marietta Energy Systems |
| MOX | mixed oxide |
| MPN | Military Production Network |
| MTCR | Missile Technology Control Regime |
| NBC | Nuclear Biological Chemical |
| NBL | New Brunswick Laboratory |
| NDAA | National Defense Authorization Act |
| NE | DOE Office of Nuclear Energy |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
| NESSG | Nuclear Explosive Safety Study Group |
| NEST | Nuclear Emergency Search Team |
| NFS | Nuclear Fuel Services |
| NIS | Newly Independent States |
| NMMSS | Nuc Materials Mngment/Safeguards Sys. |
| NP/CP | Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation |
| NPB | Neutron Particle Beam |
| NPC | Nonproliferation Center |
| NPT | Treaty on the Non-Proliferation |
| NRC | U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NRDC | Natural Resources Defense Council |
| NS | DOE Office of Nuclear Safety |
| NSC | National Security Council |
| NSC/DC | NSC/Deperties Com |
| NSC/PC | NSC/Principals Com |
| NSG | Nuclear Suppliers Group |
| NSTC | National Science and Technology Council |
| NWSP | Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Plan |
| OCONUS | Outside the Continental United States |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
| ORE | Operational Readiness Evaluation |
| OREPA | Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance |
| ORR | Operational Readiness Review |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration |
| OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| OTA | Office of Tecnnology Assessment |
| PANAL | Panhandle Area Neighbors and Landowners |
| PB | Particle Beam |
| PDD | Presidential Decision Directive |
| PEIS | Programmatic Environmental Irnpact Statement |
| PEL | Permissible Exposure Limit |
| POTAS | Prog of Tech Assist. to IAEA Safeguards |
| PPE | personal protective equipment |
| PRD | Presidential Review Document |
| QED | Qualification Evaluation for Dismantlement Release |
| RADCON | Radiological Control Manual (DOE) |
| RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
| RDSC | R&D Subcommittee |
| RFP | Rocky Flats Plant |
| SA | DOE Office of Security Affairs |
| SAC | steel arch construction |
| SAR | Safety Analysis Report |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SEA | ACDA Bur. Strategic + Eurasian Affairs |
| SIGINT | Signal Intel]igence |
| SLBM | submarine launched ballistic missile |
| SSD | Safe and Secure Dismantlement Interagency Steering Group |
| SST | Safe Secure Transport |
| ST | Strategic Transition Division ACDA |
| STAND | Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping |
| STAR | State of Texas Alliance for Resource |
| START | Strategic Arms Reductions Talks |
| STATS | National Academy of Sciences Panel on Separations Technology and |
| SWU | separative work unit |
| THAAD | Theater High Altitude Air Defense |
| TMD | Theater Missile Defense |
| TSA | Technical Safety Appraisal |
| TSWG | Technology Support Working Group |
| UAV | Unmanned Air Vehicle |
| UCNI | Unclassified Controlled Nuclear |
| UGS | Unmanned Ground System |
| UNSCoM | UN Special Commission on Iraq |
| USAF | United States Air Force |
| USC | United States Code |
| USCINCSOC | US CINC Special Operations Command |
| USEC | U.S. Enrichment Corporation |
| USML | US Munitions List |
| UV | Ultra-Violet |
| WMD | Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| WMDCS | WMD Countermeasures Subgroup |
| ZC | Zangger Committee |
| partial source: OTA,"Dismantling the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials", 9/93. | |