List of Abbreviations

• A, airgram
• ABM, anti-ballistic missile
• ABC, American Broadcasting Company
• ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ACDA/D, Office of the Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ACDA/DD, Office of the Deputy Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ACDA/IR, International Relations Bureau, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ACDA/ST, Science and Technology Bureau, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
• AEDS, Atomic Energy Detection System
• AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AFTAC, Air Force Technical Applications Center
• AICBM, air-launched intercontinental ballistic missile
• AP, Associated Press
• ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
• ASW, anti-submarine warfare
• BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• CA, circular airgram
• CAP, series indicator for telegrams from the White House
• ChiCom, Chinese Communist
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• CPR, Chinese People’s Republic
• D, Democrat; Office of the Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development
• DASA, Defense Atomic Support Agency
• DC, Disarmament Commission (United Nations)
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• Disto, series indicator for telegrams from the Delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee in Geneva to the Department of State
• E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
• EA, Office of East Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• ENDC, Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• FRC, Federal Records Center (Washington National Records Center)
• FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• GCD, general and comprehensive disarmament
• GDR, German Democratic Republic
• G/PM, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
• IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
• ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
• IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IR, intermediate-range
• IRBM, intermediate-range ballistic missile
• ISA, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
• JCAE, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
• KT, kiloton
• M, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• MC, memorandum of conversation
• MLF, multilateral force
• MRBM, medium-range ballistic missile
• MT, megaton
• NAC, National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems
• NAP, non-aggression pact
• NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
• NSC, National Security Council
• Nusup, telegram indicator from the Department of State to the Delegation to the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests
• OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• P.L., Public Law
• Polto, series indicator for telegrams from the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations to the Department of State
• PRC, People’s Republic of China
• RD, Restricted Data
• RG, Record Group
• ROW, risk of war
• RPM, Office of NATO and Atlantic Political-Military Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• S, Office of the Secretary of State
• SAM, surface-to-air missile
• SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State or his delegation to the Department of State
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• SovDel, Soviet delegation
• S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• Supnu, series indicator for telegrams from the Delegation to the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests to the Department of State
• TB, Test Ban
• Todis, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee in Geneva
• Topol, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
• Tosec, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Secretary of State or his delegation
• U, Office of the Under Secretary of State; unclassified; uranium
• UAR, United Arab Republic
• UK, United Kingdom
• UKDel, United Kingdom Delegation
• UN, United Nations
• UNDC, United Nations Disarmament Commission
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNP, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• UPI, United Press International
• USA, United States Army
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USDA, United States Disarmament Administration
• USDel, United States Delegation
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIB, United States Intelligence Board
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• UST, United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations