Reaching Critical Will

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

Acronyms

ABM: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
ACM: Advanced Cruise Missile
ACLM: Air-Launched Cruise Missile
APM: Anti-Personnel Mines
A(F)B: Air (Force) Base
AWE: Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK)
BNFL: British Nuclear Fuel Ltd.
BWC: Biological Weapons Convention
CANDU (reactor): Canada Deuterium Uranium
CD: Conference on Disarmament
CTBT: Comprehensive (nuclear) Test-Ban Treaty
CTBTO: Comprehensive (nuclear) Test-Ban Treaty Organization
CWC: Chemical Weapons Convention
DoE: Department of Energy (US)
EoV: Explanation of Vote
EURATOM: European Atomic Energy Community
FM(C)T: Fissile Material (Cut-Off) Treaty
FY: Fiscal Year
HEU: Highly Enriched Uranium
HLW: High-Level Waste
IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM: Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
ICJ: International Court of Justice
ILW: Intermediate-Level Waste
LEU: Low Enriched Uranium
LLW: Low-Level Waste
LWR: Light water reactor
MARV: Maneuverable Re-Entry Vehicles
MoD: Ministry of Defense
MOX: Mixed Oxide Fuel
MPF: Modern Pit Facility
Minatom: Ministry for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation
MIRV: Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
MTU: Metric tons of uranium
MW: megawatt
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NPR: Nuclear Posture Review (US)
NPT: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NSA: Negative Security Assurances
NNWS: non-nuclear weapon states
NWS: nuclear weapon states (US, Russia, UK, France, China)
NWFZ: Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone
OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
PAROS: Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space
PrepCom: Preparatory Committee of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Pu: Plutonium
R&D: Research and development
RNEP: Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
SDR: Strategic Defence Review (UK)
SLBM: Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile
SLCM: Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile
SORT: Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (Moscow Treaty between US and Russia)
SSBN: Ballistic Missile Submarines
START I, II, III: Strategic Arms Reductions Treaties (US and Russia)
UNDC: United Nations Disarmament Commission