Annex
Abbreviations
ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile (Treaty)
AP Additional Protocol (to a comprehensive
safeguards agreement)
ATAS Academic Technology Approval Scheme
ATT Arms Trade Treaty
BASIC British American Security Information
Council
BERR Department for Business, Enterprise
and Regulatory Reform
BMA British Medical Association
BMD Ballistic Missile Defence
BTWC Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
(also abbreviated to BWC)
BW Biological weapons
BWPP Bio-Weapons Prevention Project
CAEC Committees on Arms Export Controls
(of the House of Commons)
CB(W) Chemical and biological (weapons)
CCW Convention on Certain Conventional
Weapons
CFE Conventional Forces in Europe (Treaty)
CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
CPPNM Convention on the Physical Protection
of Nuclear Material
CSA Comprehensive safeguards agreement
(with the IAEA)
CSR Comprehensive Spending Review
CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty
CTBTO Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Organisation
CW Chemical weapons
CWC Chemical Weapons Convention
DECC Department of Energy and Climate
Change
EGAD Export Group for Aerospace and
Defence
ESS European Security Strategy
EU European Union
FATF International Financial Action
Task Force
FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FMCT Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
FSU Former Soviet Union
GICNT Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear
Terrorism
GNEP Global Nuclear Energy Programme
HEI Higher Education Institution(s)
HMRC Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM Intercontinental ballistic missile
ICNND International Commission on Nuclear
Non-Proliferation and
Disarmament
IISS International Institute for Strategic
Studies
INF Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(Treaty)
INFCIRC Information Circular (of the IAEA)
ISU Implementation Support Unit (of
the BTWC)
ITDC Illicit Trafficking Database (of
the IAEA)
MOD Ministry of Defence
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NGO Non-governmental organisation
NMD National Missile Defence
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NSF Nuclear Security Fund (of the IAEA)
NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group
NSP Nuclear Security Plan (of the IAEA)
NTI Nuclear Threat Initiative
OEWG Open Ended Working Group (on the
ATT)
OPCW Organisation for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons
OSCE Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe
PoA (UN) Programme of Action (on Small
Arms and Light Weapons)
PSA Public Service Agreement
PSI Proliferation Security Initiative
RUSI Royal United Services Institute
SALW Small arms and light weapons
SORT Strategic Offensive Reductions
Treaty
SSBN Nuclear-powered ballistic missile
submarine
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
UN United Nations
UNA-UK United Nations Association of the
UK
UNRCA UN Register of Conventional Arms
UNSCOM UN Special Commission (for Iraq)
UNSCR UN Security Council Resolution
UKWG UK Working Group on Arms
VVS Voluntary Vetting Scheme
WHO World Health Organization
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction
ZC Zangger Committee
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