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A Guide to Acronyms in The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen


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AHF: Advanced Hydrotest Facility
ASCI: Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
CEP: Circular Error Probable
CFF: Contained Firing Facility
CHE: Conventional High Explosives
CTB: Comprehensive Test Ban
DARHT: Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility
DoD: Department of Defense
DOE: Department of Energy
EEI: Enhanced Electrical Isolation
ENDS: Enhanced Nuclear Detonation Safety
FXR: Flash X-Ray facility
IHE: Insensitive High Explosives
LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
NIF: National Ignition Facility
NPT: Non-Proliferation Treaty
NTS: Nevada Test Site
PEIS: Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
PHERMEX: Pulsed High Energy Radiation Machine Emitting X-Rays
SBSS: Science Based Stockpile Stewardship
SNL: Sandia National Laboratories
SSM: Stockpile Stewardship and Management



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August, 1996