Advance your awareness or advance your career

deterrence education for peace & stability

Building a more secure, stable, and peaceful future through deterrence awareness education while enhancing strategic thought and perspective for the national security workforce and beyond.

Develop your knowledge

Whether a beginner or part of the experienced workforce, our practical approach to education is designed to introduce, explore, and advance a busy practitioner's knowledge with short courses--minimal time, at minimal cost.

enhance your thinking

Learn from some of the top professionals in the field of deterrence and national security. Immediately apply the knowledge gained the next day.

Advance your career

Boost your resume and advanced your career without long or costly college degrees. Knowledge = confidence.

National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Academy

NIDS offers agile, multimodal education experiences that are designed and taught by experienced deterrence practitioners and experts who are passionate about their mission to edify and inspire America. Our objectives are simple:

  1. Increase the average American’s awareness of deterrence efficacy.
  2. Expand the next generation of deterrence professionals, the workforce whose mission is to ensure the world-wide peace, security, and stability for America and its allies.
  3. Enhance the thinkers and champions of deterrence, those who compete in the arena of ideas.

Through the NIDS Academy, we offer unique, versatile, just-in-time, education opportunities designed to meet the needs the modern time-constrained workforce. The NIDS Academy employs a range of education methods including videos, podcasts, published articles, and in-resident discussions, to provide high-quality deterrence education to meet a broad spectrum of strategic and operational deterrence needs. Most of our courses are available to the general public.
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Choose what online course is best for you

We offer a range of courses from deterrence theory to deterrence application, various national security subjects, and easy to learn physics and engineering around the nuclear deterrence subject. Each course completed can contribute to a micro-credential. We are committed to making learning as easy, accessible, and affordable as possible. Our courses are available on-demand, self-paced, and designed so you can learn at home or work, without excessive reading or time-consuming assignments. Upgrade your knowledge and perspective and become indispensable to your organization!

Areas of Study include:
  • Realism & Idealism in national security
  • Deterrence theory & peace assurance
  • Multi-domain application of deterrence
  • Nuclear weapons & deterrence for peace
  • The physics of nuclear deterrence
  • Strength & value of the strategic nuclear triad
  • History and strategy of deterrence
  • Arms control & Arms Racing
  • Grand Strategy and great power competition
  • Integrated Deterrence
  • The danger of nuclear disarmament
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Benefits of NIDS courses

  1. Save your time! We offer curated and focused national security knowledge content. Avoid the overwhelming free content "noise" online with confidence that you are gaining relevant, topical, substantive, and useful education.
  2. Low cost! We offer an economical option to gain national security knowledge, add to your resume, compete for that promotion, or enhance your strategic thought process.
  3. Access to experts! Build relationships with our passionate practitioner-instructors, garner mentorship, collaborate, and nurture your strategic horizons.

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Learn from experienced experts

Our instructors are expert practitioners in their field, with years of experience working in national security and supporting the nuclear deterrence enterprise - they will share their knowledge and perspective on some of the most meaningful, powerful and misunderstood capabilities in history.

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Have any questions or comments? We'd love to hear from you.
  • nids_academy@thinkdeterrence.com
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The NIDS Academy is a division of:

The NIDS Academy is a division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies, a United States-based 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization that provides national security analysis, policy solutions, and deterrence education. For more information about NIDS, visit our website at www.thinkdeterrence.com.

Our team has an unwavering commitment to ensuring that everyone, regardless of physical ability, has equal access to the NIDS academy website and its content. Although we have made great efforts to make our courseware adjustable for everyone's needs, there might still be pages or sections that are not entirely accessible. We continuously work to improve accessibility, update features, and adopt new technologies to reach the highest level of accessibility possible. If you require NIDS Academy materials in a different format to ensure your access, don't hesitate to get in touch with us at nids_academy@thinkdeterrence.com and we will do our best to accommodate your specific needs.

- NIDS Academy management