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.
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:
- Increase the average American’s awareness of deterrence efficacy.
- 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.
- 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.
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:
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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