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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Summary Volume Acronyms and Abbreviations

A/D assembly/disassembly

AHF Advanced Hydrotest Facility

ARS (X-1) Advanced Radiation Source

BEEF Big Explosive Experimental Facility

CEQ Council on Environmental Quality

CFF Contained Firing Facility

Complex Nuclear Weapons Complex

CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

DARHT Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test

D&D decontamination and decommissioning

DOD Department of Defense

DOE Department of Energy

DP DOE Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs

EIS environmental impact statement

FXR Flash X-Ray

HE high explosives

HEPPF High Explosive Pulsed Power Facility

HEU highly enriched uranium

KCP Kansas City Plant

LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory

LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act

NIF National Ignition Facility

NLVF North Las Vegas Facility

NPR Nuclear Posture Review

NPT Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

NTS Nevada Test Site

NWSM Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Memorandum

NWSP Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Plan

ORR Oak Ridge Reservation

Pantex Pantex Plant

PDD Presidential Decision Directive

PEIS programmatic environmental impact statement

R&D research and development

ROD Record of Decision

SNL Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico

SRS Savannah River Site

START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

Y-12 Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge Reservation



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