Product Description: A 1995 Presidential Executive Order established a board to advise the president on implementing a policy on conventional (nonnuclear) arms and technology transfer. The board was to study the factors that contribute to the proliferation of strategic and advanced conventional military weapons and technology and the policy options the United States might use to inhibit such proliferation...read more

Product Description: Addresses the question: how can regional opponents best be dissuaded from using nuclear weapons against the United States, its troops overseas, or its allies? Also explores the implications of a failure to develop an adequate U.S. deterrent strategy.

Product Description: To be successful, deterrence requires credible threats. The most important capabilities are those that can promptly deny the adversary's objectives, but the United States must choose the time and place for making these deterrent threats with care.

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