Glossary

ABM Treaty	Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
APN	Aviation Procurement Navy
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
GDR	German Democratic Republic
GIUK Gap	Gap between Greenland – Iceland – United Kingdom
GRU	Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU is the English transliteration of the Russian acronym ГРУ, which stands for Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние – Glavnoje Razvedyvatel’noje Upravlenije)
JIC	Joint Intelligence Committee (UK)
KGB	Committee for State Security (KGB is the English transliteration of the Russian acronym КГБ, which stands for Комитет государственной безопасности – Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti)
MAD	Mutual Assured Destruction
MIRV	Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBC Weapons	Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons
OMRP	Detached Naval Reconnaissance Point (OMRP is the English transliteration of the Russian acronym ОМРП, which stands for Отдельный морской разведывательный пункт - Otdel'nyy morskoy razvedyvatel'nyy punkt)
PSYOPS	Psychological Operations
RYaN	Nuclear Missile Attack (RYaN is the English transliteration of the Russian acronym РЯН, which stands for Ракетное Ядерное Нападение – Raketnoje Yadernoje Napadenije)
SEAL	United States Navy Sea, Air and Land forces
SIGINT	Signals Intelligence
SKP	Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kommunistinen puolue)
SOSUS	Sound Surveillance System
Spetsnaz	Russian Special Purpose Regiments (Spetsnaz is the English transliteration of the Russian acronym спецназ, which stands for Войска специального назначения – Voyska spetsialnogo naznacheniya)
SSG	Special Protection Group (Swedish: Särskilda Skyddsgruppen)
TIR	Target Illuminating Radar
TSMA	Theater of Strategic Military Actions (Teatr Voenny Destvij)
UK	United Kingdom
UN	United Nations
US	United States (of America)
USSR	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also: Soviet Union)
WP	Warsaw Pact