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What is National Security?
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is a collective term encompassing both national defense and foreign relations of the United States.
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The DoD is responsible for the ________________ _____________ of the National Security Strategy.
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military component
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What are the two distinct chains of command?
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Operational and Administrative
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Describe the Operational Branch.
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The Operational Branch is the chain of command used to employ forces runs from the President, through the SecDef, to the combatant commanders (CCDRs).
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Describe the Administrative Branch.
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The Administrative Branch is the chain of command is used to recruit, organize, train, and equip forces and runs from the President through the SecDef to the Secretaries of the Military Departments
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What is a Combatant Command?
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A combatant command is a command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of significant assigned components of two or more Military Departments, that is established and so designated by the President, through the SecDef with the advice and assistance of the CJCS.
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What is a Subordinate Unified Command?
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When authorized by the SecDef through the CJCS, commanders of combatant commands may establish subordinate unified commands (also called subunified commands) to conduct operations on a continuing basis in accordance with the criteria set forth for unified commands. An example is the US Cyber Command under the US STRATCOM command.
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What is a Joint Task Force?
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A Joint Task Force (JTF) is established when the mission has a specific limited objective.
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What is a Joint Force Commander?
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Joint Force Commander (JFC) is a general term applied to a CCDR, subunified commander, or JTF commander authorized to exercise combatant command (command authority) or operational control over a joint force
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What is a Service Component Command?
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A Service component command, assigned to a CCDR, consists of a Service component CDR and the Service forces (such as individuals, units, detachments, and organizations, including the support forces) that have been assigned to that CCDR.
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What is a Function Component Command?
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CCDRs and CDRs of subordinate unified commands and JFCs have the authority to establish functional component commands to control military operations.
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How many Combatant Commands are there?
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9
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List the Combatant Commands.
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USSOCOM USNORTHCOM USSOUTHCOM USEURCOM USCENTCOM USAFRICOM USPACOM USTRANSCOM USSTRATCOM |
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What are the three examples of a Functional Combatant Commands?
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USSOCOM USSTRATCOM USTRANSCOM |
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The ______________ _______________ _____________ are authorized by the SecDef through the CJCS and are established as geographic or functional commands.
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Subordinate Unified Commands
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Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage describe what service's core values?
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Army
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Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty describe what service's core values?
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Coast Guard
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Honor, Courage, and Commitment describe what service's core values?
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Navy/Marines
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Define Military theory.
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as the scientific, artistic, and philosophical idea or view relating to principles, methods, rules, and operations of war
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What are the nine aspects of the Principals of War?
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Unity of Command, Objective, Offensive, Mass, Maneuver, Economy of Force, Security, Surprise, Simplicity
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Define the Unity of Command.
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This principle emphasizes that all efforts should be directed and coordinated toward a common objective under one responsible commander.
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Describe Objective (Principals of War).
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This principle pertains to directing military operations toward a defined and attainable goal that contributes to strategic, operational, and tactical aims.
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Describe Offensive. (Principals of War)
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This principle is to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative and to do it as soon as possible. Simply stated, it is an action rather than a reaction, and it dictates the time, place, purpose, scope, intensity, and pace of operations.
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Describe Mass. (Principals of War)
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The principle of mass concentrates the effects of combat power at a specific time and place that is most advantageous to achieve decisive results.
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Describe Maneuver. (Principals of War)
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Like the principle of offensive, maneuver forces the enemy to react, allows successful friendly operations, and reduces friendly vulnerabilities.
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Describe the Economy of Force.
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Economy of force is the careful employment and distribution of forces
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Describe Security. (Principals of War)
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The purpose of security is to never permit the enemy to acquire an unexpected advantage.
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Describe Surprise. (Principals of War)
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Surprise leverages the security principle by attacking the enemy at a time, place, or in a manner for which they are not prepared.
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Describe Simplicity. (Principals of War)
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Military operations, especially joint operations, are often complex. Simplicity calls for avoiding unnecessary complex organizing, preparing, planning, and conducting military operations
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Describe Air Force Doctrine.
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Air Force Doctrine is a statement of officially sanctioned beliefs, warfare principles, and terminology that describes and guides the proper use of air, space, and cyberspace power in military operations.
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AFDD1 represents what level of Air Force Doctrine?
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Basic
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AFDD2 represents what level of Air Force Doctrine?
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Operational
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What is AFDD1 and describe it.
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AFDD1 is Air Force Doctrine Document 1. It is broad and expresses fundamental guidance, development is never complete. Also, it changes less rapidly compared to the other levels of doctrine.
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What is AFDD2 and describe it.
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AFDD2 is Air Force Doctrine Document 2. It describes a more detailed organization of forces and applies the principles of basic doctrine to military actions.
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What is AFTTP3 and describe it.
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AFTTP 3 is Air Force Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures 3 series manuals. It represents the tactical level of doctrine. Tactical doctrine considers particular objectives (stopping the advance of an armored column) and conditions (threats, weather, and terrain) and describes how Air Force assets are employed to accomplish the tactical objective (B-1s dropping anti-armor cluster munitions).
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Describe Strategy.
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is the art and science of developing and employing instruments of national power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater, national, and/or multinational objectives
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What are the four elements of the National Security Strategy?
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Security, Prosperity, Values, and International Order
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What are the five key objectives to the National Defense Strategy?
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Defend the Homeland, Win the Long War, Promote Security, Deter Conflict, Win the Nation’s Wars
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The __________ ____________ ___________ is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s (CJCS) strategic direction for the U.S. Armed Forces and provides focus for military activities by defining a set of interrelated military objectives for joint operating concepts that the Service Chiefs and combatant commanders use to identify capabilities and risks
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National Military Strategy
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The National Military Strategy establishes four military objectives that support the National Security Strategy, what are they?
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Counter Violent Extremism Deter and Defeat Aggression Strengthen International and Regional Security Shape the Future Force
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What is a Contingency?
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is a situation requiring military operations in response to natural disasters, terrorists, subversives, or as otherwise directed by appropriate authority to protect U.S. interests.
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Guides the proper organization and employment of forces in the context of distinct objective, force capabilities, and broad functional areas.
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Operational Doctrine
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Describes the proper employment of specific Air Force assets, individually or in concert with other assets, to accomplish detailed objectives.
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Tactical Doctrine.
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_______________ _______________ and ____________ ________________ focus on deterring war, resolving conflict, promoting peace, irregular warfare, national disasters, and supporting civil authorities in response to domestic crisis.
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Crisis Response, Contingency Operations
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The protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats and aggression.
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Homeland Defense
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Term used to describe how operational Airmen accomplish missions that are not war but responses to a crisis or contingency.
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non-adversarial crisis
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An operation in which there is an enemy that our energies are being directed toward.
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Adversarial crisis.
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DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies and for designated law enforcement and other activities
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Civil Support
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A Joint Interagency, Intergovernmental, Multinational environment is often referred to as _____________?
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Joint
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A violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations.
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Irregular Warfare
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A confrontation between national states or coalitions/ alliances of nation-states
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Traditional Warfare
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List the key operational Air Force capabilities that are provided through airpower.
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Strategic Attack, Counterair, Counterland, Air Interdiction, Countersea, Combat Support, Airlift, Air Refueling, and Special Operations
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What are the 12 factors that define culture?
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Family and Kinship, Religion and Spirituality, Sex and Gender, Political and Social Relations, Economics and Resources, Time and Space, Language and Communication, Technology and Material, History and Myth, Sustenance and Health, Aesthetics and Recreation, Learning and Knowledge
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Is the belief or assumption that the particular social or cultural group a person belongs to is superior.
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Ethnocentrism
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Is the belief that morals depend on particular situation and truth, and morals change depending on a particular culture or situation
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Relativism
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Is when one corresponds or associates an object to another object in the same way as it would correspond to its image in a mirror.
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Mirror imaging
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What is Cultural diversity?
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is the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole.
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Are ways that someone sees and understands world events, especially in relation to their religious or political beliefs and ideas.
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Worldviews
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Refers to societies or groups where people have close connections over a long period of time
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High context
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Refers to societies where people tend to have many connections but of shorter duration or for some specific reason
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Low context
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Describe the Air Force Cross Cultural Competence (3C) Model.
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Cultural-General Conceptual Knowledge (Knowledge), Motivation (Positive Attitudes), Learning Approaches (Application) Communicate to avoid misunderstandings Relate with individuals from other cultures to work effectively Negotiate to overcome differences and resolve conflicts |
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__________________ refers to the obligation imposed by law, lawful order, or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds.
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Accountability
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_______________ refers to the ability to be trusted, be accurate, or provide a correct result.
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Reliability
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____________ refers to the prevention from action by fear of consequences.
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Deterrence
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How many countries depend on the US Nuclear Umbrella?
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17
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List the Nuclear Weapon States
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United States, Great Britain, France, People's Republic of China, Russia
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What are the non-nuclear weapon states?
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India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea
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Refers to materiel, personnel, and procedures that contribute to the security, safety, and reliability of nuclear weapons and to the assurance that there will be no nuclear weapon accidents, incidents, unauthorized weapon detonations, or degradation in performance at the target.
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Nuclear Surety
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_______ is protection from, or not being exposed to, the risk of harm or injury.
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safety
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___________ involves measures taken by a military unit, activity, or installation to protect against all acts designed to, or which may, impair its effectiveness.
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security
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____________ is an ability to be trusted to do what is expected or has been promised.
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realibitliy
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_______________ is the prevention from action by fear of consequences. ___________ is a state of mind brought about by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction
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Deterrence
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Deterrence = ____________ x Will x _____________
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Capability and Peception
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Peacetime support of logistical airlift; specially trained C-130 and C-17 aircrews and support personnel.
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Prime Nuclear Airlift Force (PNAF)
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Acts by members of the NPT to detect, secure, and dispose of these weapons.
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Nuclear non-proliferation
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Two certified personnel knowledgeable in the task and are capable of detecting incorrect acts
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The two person concept
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Ensures only those persons whose behavior demonstrates integrity, reliability, trustworthiness, allegiance, and loyalty to the United States shall be allowed to perform duties associated with nuclear weapons.
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Personnel Reliability Program
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Materiel, personnel, and procedures that contribute to the safety, security, reliability, and control of nuclear weapons
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Nuclear Surety
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Underground, vertical cylindrical container; physically hardened and protected by a large "blast door" on top
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Missile Silo
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Has manufactured and exploded a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device prior to 1 January 1967.
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Nuclear Weapons State
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Activities by non-members of the Non-proliferation Treaty to secure, transport, and employ weapons of mass destruction.
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Nuclear Proliferation
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Capability, will, and perception
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Factors of the Deterrence equation
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Includes electronic monitoring and controls and weapons storage vaults built into the floor of a Protective Aircraft Shelter
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Weapons Storage and Security System (WS3)
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State of mind brought about by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction
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Deterrence
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Safety, security, and reliability
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Key components of nuclear surety
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Heavily secured areas inside the perimeter of a base commonly referred to as igloos
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Weapons Storage Areas
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Deep underground structure of reinforced concrete and steel in a blast and pressure protected hardened capsule
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Launch Control Center
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