Acronyms

ABM: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

ACM: Advanced Cruise Missile

BMD: Ballistic Missile Defence

CANDU : Canadian deuterium uranium reactor

CD: Conference on Disarmament

CTBT: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

CTBTO: Comprehensive Test Ban treaty Organisation

DDA: United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs

DOE: United States Department of Energy

EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone

FMCT : Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty

HEU : Highly Enriched Uranium

ICBM: Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile

ICC: International Criminal Court

ICJ: International Court of Justice

INF: Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty

IPU: Inter-Parliamentary Union

IPA: Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

MIRV : Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicle

MOX: A fuel composed of a mixture of plutonium dioxide and uranium dioxide

MTCR: Missile Technology Control Regime

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NGO : Non-Governmental Organisation

NMC: Nuclear Materials Convention

NPT: The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

NWC: Nuclear Weapons Convention

NWFZ: Nuclear Weapon Free Zone

NWS: Nuclear Weapon States

OSCE: Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

PACE: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

PAROS : Prevention of and Arms Race in Outer Space

PNND: Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament

PTBT: Partial Test Ban Treaty

SLBM: Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile

START: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

TMD : Theatre Missile Defence

UNDC: United Nations Disarmament Commission

UNGA: United Nations General Assembly

UNIDIR: United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

WMD : Weapons of Mass Destruction