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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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