| ABL | Airborne Laser |
| ACRS | Arms Control and Regional Security (Middle East) |
| ACTD | Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration |
| ALCM | Air Launched Cruise Missile |
| BDA | Battle Damage Assessment |
| BMDO | Ballistic Missile Defense Organization |
| BW | Biological Weapons |
| BWC | Biological Weapons Convention |
| C3 | Command, Control, and Communications |
| CBD | Chemical/Biological Defense |
| CFE | Conventional Forces in Europe |
| CINC | Commander in Chief |
| CJCS | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| COCOM | Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls |
| CONUS | Continental United States |
| CPRC | Counterproliferation Program Review Committee |
| CTBT | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| CTR | Cooperative Threat Reduction |
| CW | Chemical Weapons |
| CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DCI | Director of Centraol Intelligence |
| DGP | NATO Senior Gefence Group on Proliferation |
| DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
| DMZ | Demilitarized Zone |
| DNA | Defense Nuclear Agency |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DTSA | Defense Technology Security Administration |
| EMP | Electromagnetic Pulse |
| EOD | Explosive Ordinance Disposal |
| FLIR | Forward Looking Intrared Radar |
| FSU | Former Soviet Union |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| HEU | Highly Enriched Uranium |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IC | Intelligence Community |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (Range: Greater than 5,500 km) |
| INF | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces |
| IRBM | Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (Range: 3,000 to 5,500 km) |
| JCP | NATO Joint Committee on Proliferation |
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JMIP | Joint Military Intelligence Program |
| JPO-BD | Joint Program Office for Biological Defense |
| JWCA | Joint Warfighting Capabilities Assessment |
| km | Kilometers |
| LANDSAT | Land Remote Sensing Satellite |
| LEU | Low Enriched Uranium |
| MAD | Mutually Assured Destruction |
| MEADS | Medium Extended Air Defense System |
| MRBM | Medium Range Ballistic Missile (Range: 1,000 to 3,000 km) |
| MTCR | Missile Technology Control Regime |
| NAVSTAR | Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging |
| NBC | Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical |
| NEST | Nuclear Emergency Search Team |
| NFIP | National Foreign Intelligence Program |
| NIP | Nuclear Incident Program |
| NIS | New Independent States |
| NPC | Non-Proliferation Center |
| NPRC | Nonproliferation Program Review Committee |
| NPT | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| NSG | Nuclear Suppliers' Group |
| OPCW | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
| OSCE | Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| OSIA | On-Site Inspection Agency |
| PAC | Patriot Advanced Capability |
| PGM | Precision Guided Munition |
| PrepCom | Preparatory Commission |
| Pu | Plutonium |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RDT&E | Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation |
| SAM | Surface-to-Air Missile |
| SEI | Specific Emitter Identification |
| SGP | NATO Senior Politico-Military Group |
| SLBM | Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile |
| SLV | Space Launch Vehicle |
| SOF | Special Operations Forces |
| SRBM | Short Range Ballistic Missile (Range: 1,000 km or less) |
| SSM | Surface-to-Surface Missile |
| START | Strategic Arms Reduction Talks |
| TBM | Theater Ballistic Missile |
| TBMD | Theater Ballistic Missile Defense |
| THAAD | Theater High Altitude Area Defense |
| TIARA | Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities |
| TMD | Theater Missile Defense |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UGS | Unattended Ground Sensors |
| UN | United Nations |
| U.S. | United States |
| UNSCOM | UN Special Commission on Iraq |
| UNSCR | UN Security Council Resolution |
| USG | United States Government |
| USSOCOM | U.S. Special Operations Command |