In this free resource, explore examples of deterrence from the Cold War to present day to learn how countries dissuade bad behavior with the threat of significant punishment. Students at a Brooklyn, ...

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In 1948, psychologist B. F. Skinner conducted an experiment in which hungry pigeons were fed on a random schedule. Soon three-quarters of them were behaving in unusual ways, depending on what each had ...

In 1976 the Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia (428 U.S. 153) ended the 4-year moratorium on executions that had resulted from its 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia (408 U.S. 238). In Furman the ...

Every time a federal judge sentences a criminal defendant, the law requires the judge to consider the need for the sentence imposed to deter criminal conduct. Judges, in turn, often rely on this ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is in the process of improving its nuclear forces as part of a larger modernization program. The ongoing modernization effort seems to include major new nuclear ...

Madeleine Albright once asked Colin Powell, “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Nobody ever asked that question about nuclear weapons. Not ...

Since the 1990s, every four years (give or take) the Department of Defense (DOD) issues its major strategic planning document, the National Defense Strategy (NDS). And every four years, the strategic ...

The Department of Defense is funding at least eight programs aimed at equipping each of the military departments with hypersonic weapons by the end of the decade. Hypersonic systems are designed to ...

An Army Special Forces Soldier (left) assigned to 20th Special Forces Group and member of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces observe a target during exercise Saber Junction 2018 at the ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. During the 35 years since Gregg, and particularly in the past decade, many additional ...