Office of the Historian

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