ABBREVIATIONS
ABM | anti-ballistic missile |
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ACDA | Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
ALCM | air-launched cruise missile |
C3+I | command, control, communications, and intelligence |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
CPD | Committee on the Present Danger |
CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
DC | District of Columbia |
DST | Defense and Space Talks |
ExComm | Executive Committee of the National Security Council |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FDR | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
FPR | Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research |
ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
IDA | Institute for Defense Analysis |
INF | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces |
ISA | international security affairs |
JFK | John F. Kennedy |
LBJ | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
MAD | mutual assured destruction |
MIRVs | multiple independent reentry vehicles |
MX | Missile Experimental |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NPT | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
NSC | National Security Council |
NSC-68 | “United States Objectives and Programs for National Security” |
NSDD | National Security Decision Directive |
NSPG | National Security Planning Group |
NSSD | National Security Study Directive |
NST | Nuclear and Space Arms Talks |
RFK | Robert F. Kennedy |
RISOP | Red Integrated Strategic Offensive Plan |
RV | reentry vehicle |
SAIS | School of Advanced International Studies |
SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SALT I | Interim Agreement Between the United States and USSR (1972) |
SALT II | Treaty Between the United States and USSR (1979) |
SAM | surface-to-air missile |
SDI | Strategic Defense Initiative |
SIOP | Single Integrated Operations Plan |
SLBM | submarine-launched ballistic missile |
SLCM | submarine-launched cruise missile |
SS | surface-to-surface missile (e.g., SS-9) |
START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
UN | United Nations |
USSBS | US Strategic Bombing Survey |
USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |