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

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.

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

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

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.

PNND: Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament.

PTBT: Partial Test Ban Treaty.

SLBM: Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile.

START: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

UNDC: United Nations Disarmament Commission.

UNGA: United Nations General Assembly.

UNIDIR: United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.