Because NNSA's industrial infrastructure has been neglected for so long, it will need an infusion of funding to support the nation's deterrence objectives.
In fact, Obama's 2010 Nuclear Posture Review displaced traditional deterrence objectives from the top of the strategic agenda, emphasizing instead the importance of halting nuclear proliferation and preventing nuclear terrorism.
Deterrence is the objective.
Punitive damages in such an exceptional case will serve at least to deter egregious union conduct, and Vaca makes clear that deterrence is a proper objective in unfair representation actions.
Inspired by Bentham, Vale was in favour of humane penal laws that proportioned penalties to the objective of deterrence and an advocate of state intervention to alter the social circumstances that fostered crime.
To this end, utilitarian penal law is framed in terms of the principal objective of deterrence, but it also embraces the secondary ends of disablement, moral reformation, and compensation (see Crimmins 2011b).
In settling the required proportions of punishment, Bentham recognised he had burdened the legislator with a vastly complex task the calculation of the correct quantity and type of pain needed to achieve the desired ends, in particular the objective of deterrence.
In overturning a ruling that would have prevented Howe from practicing his profession for the remainder of his life anywhere in the United States, if not the world, Nicolau explained that "deterrence, however laudable an objective, should not be achieved at the expense of fairness". Mejia's case involved the use of performance-enhancing drugs, not recreational drugs.
For example, in a famous 1992 Major League Baseball grievance arbitration, the case's esteemed arbitrator, George Nicolau, explained that "deterrence, however laudable an objective, should not be achieved at the expense of fairness". The NFL does not seem to apply this edict.
Traditionally, prisons are held to have four objectives: retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation and incapacitation.
In Denmark, the objectives of deterrence and voluntary leaving are officially written down in the law L 87, section 1.2.
