Abbreviations

chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear

Coronavirus disease 2019

Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material

Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material

Cooperative Threat Reduction (programme that derived from the 1991 Soviet Threat Reduction Act)

design basis threat

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; North Korea

European Union

European Atomic Energy Community

Former Soviet Union

Group of Seven/Group of Eight

Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism

G7/G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction

highly enriched uranium

International Atomic Energy Agency

International Conference on Nuclear Security

International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism

improvised nuclear device

International Circular (of the IAEA)

Integrated Nuclear Security Support Plan

International Criminal Police Organization

International Physical Protection Advisory Service

Incident and Trafficking Database

low enriched uranium

light water reactor

mixed oxide (fuel)

nuclear material accounting and control

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Security Fund

Nuclear Suppliers Group

Nuclear Security Plan

Nuclear Security Series

proliferation financing

Proliferation Security Initiative

Plutonium-239 (a fissile isotope of plutonium)

radiological dispersal device

radiological emission device

radiological incendiary device

Republic of Korea; South Korea

United Kingdom

United Nations

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

United Nations Security Council

United Nations Security Council Resolution

United States

Uranium-235 (a fissile isotope of uranium)

weapons of mass destruction

Terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001