ABSTRACT

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon. The entries deal with all areas of nuclear warfare: its strategies and tactics, personnel and weapons systems, arms control and disarmament talks. The terminology of the nuclear age expands and changes as fast as the weapons and strategies it describes; the dictionary therefore covers a span ranging from the first tentative post-Hiroshima ideas and systems through to the near-fictions of the ‘Star Wars’ initiative. This fascinating reissue will be of particular value to those in need of a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of nuclear warfare, as well as students of linguistics with a particular interest in slang and jargon. 

letter |17 pages

A

entry |1 pages

A Ring

entry |1 pages

Abc Warfare

entry |3 pages

Abm

entry |1 pages

Absolute Dud

entry |1 pages

Acceptable Casualties

entry |2 pages

Acda

entry |1 pages

Active Defence

entry |1 pages

Adgom

entry |1 pages

Afap

entry |1 pages

Afsatcom

entry |1 pages

Agi

entry |1 pages

Air Breather

entry |2 pages

Air Burst

entry |1 pages

Air Defence Warning Conditions

entry |1 pages

Airborne Alert

entry |1 pages

Alcm

entry |1 pages

Alert Crew

entry |1 pages

Anticipatory Reaction

entry |2 pages

Anticipatory Retaliation

entry |1 pages

Arc Light

entry |1 pages

Area Defence

entry |2 pages

Asalm

entry |3 pages

Asat

entry |1 pages

Asat Treaty

entry |2 pages

Asms

entry |3 pages

Assured Destruction

entry |2 pages

Asw

entry |2 pages

Asw/Sow

entry |1 pages

Atomic Music

entry |1 pages

Attack Options

entry |2 pages

Attrit

entry |1 pages

Austere Cantonment

entry |1 pages

Austere Wars

entry |1 pages

Averager

entry |2 pages

Awacs

entry |1 pages

Awdrey

letter |13 pages

B

entry |1 pages

B Ring

entry |2 pages

B1-B Bomber

entry |1 pages

Backchannel

entry |2 pages

Backfire

entry |1 pages

Badger

entry |1 pages

Balance Of Terror

entry |2 pages

Bambi

entry |1 pages

Baroque Armaments

entry |1 pages

Basic Encyclopedia

entry |2 pages

Bear

entry |1 pages

Benign Testing

entry |1 pages

Bent Spear

entry |1 pages

Bids And Proposals

entry |2 pages

Big Bird

entry |1 pages

Big Blue Cube

entry |1 pages

Big One

entry |1 pages

Bin

entry |1 pages

Binary Weapon

entry |2 pages

Bison

entry |1 pages

Black Boxes

entry |1 pages

Blackjack

entry |1 pages

Blinder

entry |1 pages

Blowtorch

entry |1 pages

Blue Force

entry |1 pages

Blue On Blue Contact

entry |1 pages

Blue Suits

entry |1 pages

Blue Water Navy

entry |1 pages

Blunting Mission

entry |2 pages

Bmd

entry |1 pages

Bmews

entry |1 pages

Boob

entry |1 pages

Boomers

entry |1 pages

Boost Phase Defence

entry |1 pages

Boy

entry |2 pages

Breakout

entry |1 pages

Brick

entry |1 pages

Brinkmanship

entry |1 pages

Broken Arrow

entry |1 pages

Brown Water Navy

entry |1 pages

Brushfire Operations

entry |1 pages

Brushfire Wars

entry |1 pages

Bud

entry |2 pages

Bund-Down

entry |1 pages

Bus

entry |1 pages

Button On

entry |2 pages

Buy In

letter |17 pages

C

entry |1 pages

C Ring

entry |1 pages

C3Cm

entry |2 pages

C3I

entry |1 pages

C4I

entry |1 pages

Cab-Rank Patrol

entry |1 pages

Caesar

entry |1 pages

Captor

entry |1 pages

Carpet

entry |1 pages

Catalytic War

entry |1 pages

Cbms

entry |1 pages

Cemetery Network

entry |2 pages

Cep

entry |1 pages

Chaff

entry |2 pages

Cheeseburger (Or Big Blue Eighty-Two, Daisycutter

entry |1 pages

Chevaline

entry |1 pages

Chicks

entry |2 pages

Chop

entry |1 pages

Chuffing

entry |1 pages

Chugging

entry |1 pages

Chumming

entry |1 pages

City-Busting (Or Counter-City)

entry |1 pages

Clandestine Cache

entry |2 pages

Classical Figure

entry |1 pages

Cold Launch (Or Pop-Up)

entry |1 pages

Collateral Damage

entry |1 pages

Comint

entry |2 pages

Conflict Spectrum

entry |1 pages

Connectivity

entry |1 pages

Controlled Counterforce War

entry |1 pages

Conus

entry |1 pages

Corridor Bashing

entry |2 pages

Counterforce

entry |1 pages

Countervailing Strategy

entry |2 pages

Countervalue

entry |1 pages

Coupling

entry |1 pages

Cover All

entry |1 pages

Cratology

entry |2 pages

Credibility

entry |1 pages

Creek Misty

entry |1 pages

Crisis Management

entry |1 pages

Crit

entry |1 pages

Cross-Targeting

entry |4 pages

Cruise Missiles

entry |1 pages

Crutches

entry |1 pages

Csb

entry |2 pages

Csce

entry |2 pages

Cw

letter |11 pages

D

entry |1 pages

Dadcap

entry |1 pages

Damage Assessment

entry |1 pages

Damage Limitation

entry |1 pages

Dark Objects

entry |1 pages

Dark Satellites

entry |2 pages

Darpa

entry |1 pages

Deaf-Smack

entry |1 pages

Decapitation

entry |1 pages

Decay

entry |2 pages

Decoupling

entry |1 pages

Deep Creep

entry |1 pages

Deep Engagement

entry |2 pages

Deep-Basing

entry |1 pages

Defcon

entry |1 pages

Demographic Targeting

entry |1 pages

Denial

entry |2 pages

Dense Pack

entry |1 pages

Dentology

entry |1 pages

Destruct

entry |2 pages

DéTente

entry |3 pages

Deterrence

entry |1 pages

Dew

entry |1 pages

Dirty

entry |1 pages

Discriminating Weapons

entry |1 pages

Discrimination

entry |1 pages

Doomsday Clock

entry |1 pages

Doomsday Scenario

entry |1 pages

Dove

entry |1 pages

Dual Capable

entry |1 pages

Dual Phenomenology

entry |1 pages

Dual Track

entry |2 pages

Dull Sword

entry |1 pages

Dumb Rock

entry |1 pages

Dust Defence

entry |1 pages

Dwarf Dud

letter |8 pages

E

entry |1 pages

Eam

entry |1 pages

Ecm

entry |1 pages

Eighth Card

entry |1 pages

Electron Overload

entry |1 pages

Elephant Ears

entry |2 pages

Elf

entry |2 pages

Elint

entry |1 pages

Emanations

entry |1 pages

Emp

entry |1 pages

Enable

entry |1 pages

Endurance

entry |1 pages

Enhanced Radiation Weapon (Or Neutron Bomb)

entry |2 pages

Eob

entry |1 pages

Er

entry |1 pages

Ercs

entry |1 pages

Error Budget

entry |2 pages

Escalation

entry |1 pages

Escalation Control (Or De-Escalation)

entry |1 pages

Escalation Dominance

entry |1 pages

Escalation Ladder

entry |1 pages

Esi

entry |1 pages

Et

entry |1 pages

Event

entry |1 pages

Ew

letter |12 pages

F

entry |1 pages

Fade Out

entry |1 pages

Fae

entry |1 pages

Fail Safe

entry |1 pages

Fallback

entry |3 pages

Fallout

entry |1 pages

Fat Man

entry |1 pages

Fbs

entry |1 pages

Feba

entry |1 pages

Fellow Traveller

entry |2 pages

Fencer

entry |1 pages

Final Order

entry |1 pages

Finite Deterrence

entry |1 pages

Fire And Forget

entry |1 pages

Firebreak

entry |2 pages

First Strike

entry |1 pages

First Use

entry |2 pages

Fishbed

entry |2 pages

Fission

entry |1 pages

Fission Products

entry |1 pages

Fission-Fusion-Fission

entry |1 pages

Fitter A

entry |1 pages

Fitter D/H

entry |1 pages

Flanker

entry |2 pages

Flexible Response (

entry |1 pages

Flogger D/J

entry |1 pages

Fltsatcom

entry |2 pages

Flush On Warning

entry |1 pages

Fobs

entry |1 pages

Follow-On Theory

entry |1 pages

Football

entry |1 pages

Footprint

entry |2 pages

Force Multipliers

entry |1 pages

Fortress America

entry |1 pages

Foxhole Strength

entry |1 pages

Fratricide

entry |1 pages

Free Rocket

entry |1 pages

Fulcrum

entry |1 pages

Full Generation

entry |2 pages

Fusion

letter |4 pages

G

entry |1 pages

Galosh

entry |1 pages

Garage

entry |1 pages

General War

entry |2 pages

Geodss

entry |1 pages

Go Codes

entry |1 pages

Gold-Plating

entry |1 pages

Gps

entry |2 pages

Graceful Degradation

entry |1 pages

Grade Creep

entry |1 pages

Gradualism

entry |1 pages

Greenhouse Effect

entry |2 pages

Grit

entry |1 pages

Ground Burst

entry |1 pages

Ground Zero

entry |1 pages

Growler

letter |6 pages

H

entry |1 pages

Halo

entry |2 pages

Hard

entry |1 pages

Hard Target Kill Potential

entry |1 pages

Hardware

entry |1 pages

Hawk

entry |1 pages

High End Of The Conflict Spectrum

entry |2 pages

High Frontier

entry |2 pages

Hit

entry |1 pages

Hoe

entry |1 pages

Hold-Up

entry |1 pages

Homebodies

entry |1 pages

Horizontal Escalation

entry |1 pages

Horizontal Proliferation

entry |1 pages

Hostility Containment

entry |1 pages

Hot Line

entry |1 pages

Hotspotter

entry |2 pages

Hot-Turn

entry |1 pages

Humint

entry |1 pages

Hypocentre

letter |7 pages

I

entry |4 pages

Icbm

entry |1 pages

Iff

entry |1 pages

Improved War Outcome

entry |3 pages

Inf Talks

entry |1 pages

Initial Boost Phase

entry |1 pages

Integrated Battlefield

entry |1 pages

Intervention Area

entry |2 pages

Intra-War Period (Or Trans-Siop Period)

entry |1 pages

Ionds

letter |1 pages

J

entry |1 pages

Jeep

entry |1 pages

Joe

letter |1 pages

K

entry |1 pages

Kahn Energy

entry |1 pages

Kneecap (Or Neacp)

letter |3 pages

L

entry |1 pages

Lampshade

entry |1 pages

Latent Period

entry |1 pages

Launch On Warning (Low)

entry |1 pages

Ld-50

entry |1 pages

Leakage

entry |1 pages

Lethality

entry |1 pages

Linkage

entry |1 pages

Little Boy

entry |2 pages

Loads

entry |1 pages

Look-Down Shoot-Down Capability

entry |1 pages

Looking Glass

entry |1 pages

Loran-C

entry |1 pages

Low

entry |1 pages

Lucrative Target

letter |13 pages

M

entry |1 pages

Mad

entry |1 pages

Madman Theory

entry |1 pages

Map

entry |2 pages

Marv

entry |1 pages

Mas

entry |2 pages

Massive Retaliation

entry |1 pages

Mbfr Talks

entry |1 pages

Meecn

entry |1 pages

Megadeath

entry |1 pages

Mhiv

entry |2 pages

Midas

entry |2 pages

Midgetman

entry |1 pages

Milstar

entry |2 pages

Minimum Deterrence

entry |3 pages

Mirv

entry |1 pages

Missile Envelope

entry |1 pages

Missile Gap

entry |1 pages

Modesty Shield

entry |1 pages

Moscow Criterion

entry |1 pages

Mrbm

entry |1 pages

Mrv

entry |1 pages

Multiple Kill Capability

entry |1 pages

Multistable Deterrence

entry |1 pages

Muncher

entry |3 pages

Mx

letter |9 pages

N

entry |2 pages

Navstar

entry |1 pages

Nbc Warfare

entry |1 pages

Nie

entry |1 pages

Nightwatch

entry |1 pages

Nmcc

entry |2 pages

Nmcs

entry |1 pages

Nominal Yield Weapons

entry |1 pages

Non-Proliferation Treaty

entry |4 pages

Norad

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Cinc

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Freeze

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Threshold

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Umbrella

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Winter

entry |2 pages

Nudets

letter |2 pages

O

entry |1 pages

Oil Burner Routes

entry |1 pages

Olive Branch Routes

entry |1 pages

On Call Target

entry |1 pages

Open Skies Policy

entry |1 pages

Orange Forces

entry |1 pages

Oth Radar, Oth-B Radar

entry |1 pages

Overkill

entry |1 pages

Overpressure

letter |10 pages

P

entry |1 pages

Pal

entry |1 pages

Par

entry |1 pages

Parity

entry |1 pages

Passengers

entry |1 pages

Pave Paws

entry |2 pages

Pbw

entry |3 pages

Pd-59

entry |1 pages

Penaid

entry |1 pages

Pepe

entry |1 pages

Personnel Reaction Time

entry |1 pages

Pgm

entry |1 pages

Pgrv

entry |2 pages

Piggy-Backing

entry |1 pages

Pin-Down

entry |1 pages

Planning Continuum

entry |1 pages

Pmals

entry |2 pages

Point Defence

entry |1 pages

Point Target

entry |1 pages

Porcupine

entry |1 pages

Positive Control

entry |1 pages

Post-Attack Blackmail

entry |1 pages

Post-Launch Survivability

entry |1 pages

Post-Siop

entry |1 pages

Post-Traumatic Neurosis

entry |1 pages

Posture

entry |1 pages

Pre-Emptive Strike

entry |1 pages

Preferential Defence

entry |1 pages

Pre-Launch Survivability

entry |2 pages

Prevail

entry |1 pages

Preventive War

entry |1 pages

Proliferation

entry |1 pages

Proportionality

entry |2 pages

Pvo Strany

letter |1 pages

Q

entry |1 pages

Q Clearance

letter |3 pages

R

entry |2 pages

Race Track (Or Multiple Protective Structure (Or Shelter))

entry |1 pages

Rd

entry |1 pages

Rdss

entry |1 pages

Ready Room

entry |1 pages

Red Box

entry |1 pages

Reliability

entry |2 pages

Retaliation

entry |1 pages

Risop

entry |1 pages

Rock

entry |1 pages

Rope

entry |1 pages

Runway Masher

letter |37 pages

S

entry |3 pages

Sac

entry |1 pages

Safing

entry |2 pages

Salt I

entry |4 pages

Salt

entry |1 pages

Salt Iii

entry |1 pages

Salted Weapon

entry |1 pages

Samos

entry |1 pages

Sanctuary Radar

entry |1 pages

Sanctuary Strategy

entry |1 pages

Saturation Attack

entry |4 pages

Sbl

entry |4 pages

Sdi

entry |1 pages

Sds

entry |2 pages

Second Decision Centres

entry |1 pages

Second Order Threat

entry |2 pages

Second Strike

entry |2 pages

Security Dilemma

entry |1 pages

Seek Talk

entry |1 pages

Seven-Tenths Rule

entry |1 pages

Severe Damage

entry |1 pages

Sherwood Forest

entry |2 pages

Si

entry |1 pages

Sicbm

entry |1 pages

Sigint

entry |1 pages

Significant Quantity

entry |2 pages

Siop

entry |1 pages

Sit Position

entry |3 pages

Slbm

entry |1 pages

Slcm

entry |1 pages

Slc-6

entry |1 pages

Sma

entry |1 pages

Smart

entry |1 pages

Smart Bomb

entry |1 pages

Soft

entry |2 pages

Sosus

entry |1 pages

Spacemen

entry |1 pages

Spadats

entry |1 pages

Spadoc

entry |1 pages

Spasm War

entry |1 pages

Spike

entry |2 pages

Splendid First Strike

entry |1 pages

Sram

entry |1 pages

Srbm

entry |2 pages

S-S

entry |1 pages

Ssbn

entry |1 pages

Star Wars

entry |4 pages

Start

entry |1 pages

Stealth

entry |1 pages

Stockpile Energy

entry |1 pages

Strategic Architecture

entry |1 pages

Strategic Arsenals

entry |1 pages

Strategic Balance

entry |3 pages

Strategic Connectivity

entry |1 pages

Strategic Nuclear Weapons

entry |3 pages

Strategic Submarines

entry |2 pages

Strategic Superiority

entry |1 pages

Strategic Triad

entry |1 pages

Strategic Warning

entry |2 pages

Strat-X

entry |1 pages

Surface Burst

entry |1 pages

Surge

entry |1 pages

Surgical Strike

entry |1 pages

Surtass

entry |2 pages

Survivable Weapons

entry |1 pages

Swarmjet

entry |1 pages

Systems Bargaining

entry |1 pages

Systems Engineering

letter |8 pages

T

entry |1 pages

Tacamo

entry |2 pages

Tactical Nuclear Weapons

entry |1 pages

Tactical Warning

entry |1 pages

Target Response

entry |1 pages

Teal Amber

entry |1 pages

Teeth Arms

entry |1 pages

Teeth-To-Tail Ratio

entry |1 pages

Tel

entry |1 pages

Telint

entry |2 pages

Tercom

entry |1 pages

Termination Capability

entry |1 pages

Theatre

entry |2 pages

Theatre Armaments (Or Theatre Nuclear Weapons)

entry |1 pages

Threat Assessment Conference

entry |1 pages

Threat Azimuth

entry |1 pages

Threat Fan

entry |1 pages

Three-D Problem

entry |2 pages

Throw-Weight

entry |1 pages

Time-Urgent Targets

entry |1 pages

Trans-Siop

entry |2 pages

Trigger Theory

entry |1 pages

Trip-Wire Force

entry |2 pages

Two-Man Rule

letter |1 pages

U

entry |1 pages

Unacceptable Damage

entry |1 pages

Use Them Or Lose Them

letter |3 pages

V

entry |1 pages

Validation Codes

entry |1 pages

Vela

entry |1 pages

Verification

entry |1 pages

Vertical Proliferation

entry |2 pages

Vhsic

entry |1 pages

Vladivostok Accord

entry |1 pages

Vlsi

entry |2 pages

Voting System

letter |6 pages

W

entry |1 pages

War Of Resolution

entry |2 pages

War-Fighting

entry |1 pages

Wargame

entry |1 pages

Wargasm

entry |2 pages

Weapons System

entry |1 pages

Weathercock

entry |1 pages

White Suits

entry |1 pages

Window Of Vulnerability

entry |2 pages

Wisc

entry |1 pages

Withhold Target

entry |1 pages

Wooden Bomb

entry |1 pages

Woodpecker

entry |3 pages

Wwmccs

letter |1 pages

Y

entry |1 pages

Yellowcake

entry |1 pages

Yield

entry |1 pages

Yield-To-Weight Ratio

letter |3 pages

Z

entry |1 pages

Z Zones

entry |3 pages

Zero Option