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A Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Signed but not Sealed

ACRONYM Report No.10, May 1997

Appendix 3
Glossary of Acronyms

© 1997 The Acronym Institute.

ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
CD Conference on Disarmament
CTB(T) Comprehensive Test Ban (Treaty)
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
EU European Union
G-21 Group of Non-Aligned States at the CD (now with 30 members)
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
kt kiloton (1,000 tons TNT equivalent)
NAM Non-Aligned Movement
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968)
NSA Negative Security Assurances
NWFZ Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
NWS Nuclear Weapon States
NNWS Non-Nuclear Weapon States
PAROS Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space
PNE Peaceful Nuclear Explosion
PTBT Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963)
P-5 Permanent Five - the five nuclear-weapon states which are also the permanent members of the UN Security Council: US, Russia, China, Britain and France
SPF South Pacific Forum
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
TIA Transparency in Armaments
UK United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UN(GA) United Nations (General Assembly)
UNSC United Nations Security Council
US United States of America
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics