Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y Z A A. Q. Khan Absolute timing accuracy Acquisition computers Ad-hoc Group of Scientific Experts African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) Agreed framework Alva Myrdal Annex 2 State Anomalous anthropogenic sample Antarctic Treaty Anti-Aliasing Filter Anti-ballistic missile Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty Argon Arms control ARR Array Array Passband Arrays ATM Atmospheric Boundary Layer Atmospheric Transport Modelling Atmospheric Transport Modelling (ATM) Atomic bomb Atomic bombs Atomic energy Atoms for Peace Authenticated data Automatic Event Screening Automatic Radionuclide Report (ARR) Auxiliary seismic Auxiliary seismic station Auxiliary seismic stations Azimuth Azimuths B Baruch Plan Basic communications topology Becquerel Berlin blockade Berlin Wall Bilateral Body waves Bombers Boosted fission nuclear weapon Borehole (seismic) Buffering C Cairo Declaration on the Denuclearization of Africa Calibration Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Capacity Development Initiative CBMs CD CDI Central and Eastern Europe NWFZ Central Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (CANWFZ) Central processing facility Central recording facility Certification Certification visits Certified Chain reaction (fission) Challenge inspection Challenge inspections CIRUS heavy water reactor Cobalt bombs Cold War Communication node Communication nodes Compliance matrix Compliance provisions Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Conference on Disarmament Confidence-building measure Confidence-building measures Continuation Period Techniques Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Coolant Coordinated Universal Time Core Critical mass Cruise missile CTBT CTBTO Cuban Missile Crisis Curie Curies D Data authentication Data availability Data availability requirements Data buffer Data fusion Data latency Data mining Daytime convection De-activate De-alert Deterrence Deterrent Diffusion Digitizer Dual-use item E EIF Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee (ENDC) Electromagnetic pulse Electromagnetic pulses EMP Enriched uranium Enrico Fermi Enter into force Entered into force Enters into force Entry into force European Atomic Energy Community Event Events F Facility agreement Facility agreements Fallout Feedback Seismometer First strike Fissile material Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty Fission Fission bomb Fission chain reaction Fission products Fission weapon Fission weapons Fizzle Flying radionuclide laboratories FMCT Force structure Fuel cycle Full-scope safeguards Fusion Fusion bomb G G8 G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of WMD Gamma radiation Gamma ray spectrum Gamma spectroscopy Garcia Robles, Alfonso GCI Geodetic system/data Geophone Gigabecquerel Gigabecquerels Global Communications Infrastructure Global Positioning System GPS GPS antenna Group of Scientific Experts Group of Scientific Experts Technical Test (GSETT) GSE Gun-type fission bomb Gun-type nuclear explosion Gun-type weapon H H-phase Half-life Hertz High alert Highly enriched uranium (HEU) Horizontal proliferation Hydroacoustic Hydroacoustic monitoring Hydroacoustic network Hydroacoustic station Hydroacoustic stations Hydroacoustic waves Hydroacoustics Hydrogen bomb Hydrogen bombs Hydrophone Hydrophone sensor Hydrophone sensors Hydrophone station Hydrophone stations Hydrophones I IAEA IAEA Information Circular 153 (INFCIRC/153) IAEA Information Circular 540 (INFCIRC/540) IAEA Information Circular 66 (INFCIRC/66) IDC IDC Testbed IDC Testbed and Message System Implosion device Implosion type (nuclear weapon/bomb) Implosion-type Improvised nuclear device (IND) IMS IMS Testbed Independently targeted warheads Infrasonic array Infrasonic waves Infrasound Infrasound monitoring Infrasound network Infrasound station Infrasound stations Infrasound waves INGE Inspection team Inspector Inspectors Instrument of ratification Interactive Review Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty International Atomic Energy Agency International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism International Data Centre International Data Centre product International Monitoring System International Noble Gas Experiment Intra-array power distribution system ISN and GCI Isotope Isotopes J Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula K Katabatic wind Katabatic winds Kiloton Kilotons Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) Krakatoa eruption Kyoto Protocol L Latin American Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Leo Szilard Lethal dose Limited Test Ban Treaty Lisbon Protocol Long period Low enriched uranium (LEU) M Manifold Mass centering Megaton Megatons Member State Member States Microbarograph Microbarometer Microbarometers Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons as well as Other Weapons of Mass Destruction Mission capability Moratoria Moratorium Multilateral Multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRV) Mutual deterrence N National authority National Data Centre National Data Centre (NDC) in a box National Data Centres National technical means NATO NDC-in-a-box Negative security assurances Network processing Neutron bombs Niels Bohr NNWS No First Use Noble gas Noble gases Nocturnal boundary layer Non-nuclear weapon State Non-nuclear weapon States Non-party Non-proliferation Non-Proliferation Treaty Non-strategic nuclear weapons North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) NPT NTMs Nuclear armed state Nuclear armed states Nuclear deterrent Nuclear energy Nuclear explosion Nuclear explosions Nuclear explosive device Nuclear installation Nuclear non-proliferation Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Nuclear power plant Nuclear power plants Nuclear reactor Nuclear reactors Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Nuclear umbrella Nuclear use doctrine Nuclear weapon Nuclear weapon state Nuclear weapon states Nuclear weapons Nuclear-weapon-free country Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas Nuclear-Weapon-Free Status of Mongolia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Protocol NWFZ NWS O On-Site Inspection On-site Inspections OPANAL Operation Storax Operation temperature OSI Outer Space Treaty P P-5 P-waves Partial Test Ban Treaty Party Passband Peaceful nuclear explosion Peaceful nuclear explosions Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty Physical and network security PIDC Pipe array system Plutonium PNE PNET Positive security assurances Power: Basic system requirements Preparatory Commission Primary seismic station Primary seismic stations Proliferation Protocol Protocols Prototype International Data Centre (PIDC) Provisional Technical Secretariat PTBT PTS Pu Pugwash R Rad Radiation Radiation syndrome (also called radiation sickness) Radioactive contamination Radioactive decay Radioactive fallout Radioactive particle Radioactive particles Radioactive waste Radioactivity Radioisotope Radiological dispersal device (RDD) Radiological terrorism Radiological weapons Radionuclide Radionuclide laboratories Radionuclide laboratory Radionuclide monitoring Radionuclide network Radionuclide particles Radionuclide station Radionuclide stations Radionuclides Radioxenon Rapacki Plan Ratification Ratifications Ratified Ratify REB Regime Relative timing accuracy Resolution Reviewed Event Bulletin (REB) Reviewed Radionuclide Report (RRR) Richter scale Robert Oppenheimer ROV RRR Russel-Einstein Manifesto S S-waves Safeguards SALT I & II Sampling Rate Seabed Treaty Secure Signatory Accounts Secure Signature Account Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) Seismic Seismic array Seismic arrays Seismic boreholes Seismic equipment Seismic network Seismic noise Seismic vault Seismic vaults Seismic verification Seismic waves Seismology Seismometer Seismometer noise Seismometers SEL Self-noise Short period Sign Signal Signals Signatory States Signature Signed Site survey Site surveys Skeptical SOFAR South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Spent nuclear fuel SSEB SSREB Standard Event List Standard Event Lists Standard Screened Event Bulletin (SSEB) Standard Screened Radionuclide Event Bulletin (SSREB) State-of-health data States Signatories Station Station processing Stations Stockpile Stewardship Program Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START I & II) Strategic nuclear warheads Sub-critical tests Supreme national interest Surface forcings Surface waves System noise System Performance System sustainment T T-phase T-Phase station T-phase stations Tactical nuclear weapons Tamper detector or Tamper Switch Teller Terabyte Terabytes Territory The 98% threshold (“gold standard”) Thermonuclear Thermonuclear weapon Thirteen Practical Steps Three-component stations Threshold Test Ban Treaty Timely data availability TNT Transparency measures Treaty of Bangkok (Treaty on the Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone) Treaty of Pelindaba (Treaty on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone) Treaty of Rarotonga Treaty of Tlatelolco Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty on the South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Trilateral Statement on the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Means of Their Delivery Tsunami Tsunamis TTBT U UK-US Mutual Defense Agreement Ulam UN General Assembly UN Security Council Unauthorized launch United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (The Law of the Sea) United Nations General Assembly United Nations Security Council Uppsala Declaration on NWFZs UPS units Uranium Uranium enrichment Uranium enrichment V Vela incident Velocity Verification Verification technologies Verifying Vertical proliferation Visual observation VSAT W Warsaw Pact Waveform Weapons of mass destruction Weapons-grade Weapons-usable material WEB-GRAPE WMD WMD Commission X Xenon Y Yield Yields Z Zangger Committee Zone of application Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality (ZOPFAN)
