Patty-Jane Geller, Heritage Foundation

Patty-Jane Geller

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Pentagon Report on China’s Military Highlights Nuclear Buildup That Could Overtake America

The Pentagon’s new China Military Power Report provides troubling insights on the extent of the growth of the communist regime’s nuclear arsenal. It describes a nation bent on multiplying its nuclear forces. → Read More

North Korean Provocations Highlight Continuing Need for Homeland Missile Defense

The rapidly increasing tempo of North Korean missile tests underscores the importance of a viable homeland missile defense. On Oct. 3, Pyongyang conducted its 39th ballistic missile test of the year—the eighth since just last week. The most recent shot flew right over Japan and traveled so far that it could have reached the U.S. territory of Guam. → Read More

3 Ways Chinese Nuclear Buildup Threatens U.S. National Security Interests

The head of the U.S. Strategic Command, Adm. Charles Richard, recently alerted the world that when it comes to deterrence against China, “the ship is slowly sinking.” → Read More

The U.S. Must Strengthen Its Nuclear Forces to Deter Growing Nuclear Threats

In the summer of 2021, satellite imagery revealed that China is pursuing a strategic breakout of its nuclear forces that could enable it to surpass Russia as the top nuclear threat to the United States. → Read More

The Gaping Logic Hole in the Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review

The Biden administration’s decision to cancel the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) has been hotly debated since it was announced in April. The recently released Nuclear Posture Review only casts further doubt on the decision. → Read More

China’s Nuclear Expansion and its Implications for U.S. Strategy and Security

The U.S. Department of Defense considers China the pacing threat to the United States as its military buildup, economic coercion, and political warfare threaten the U.S.-led world order that serves the interests of Americans.[1] → Read More

Russia, China and the Power of Nuclear Coercion

When it comes to the threat of nuclear weapons, the U.S. typically focuses on our primary goal of preventing adversaries from using them. We do that with deterrence. Unfortunately, of late we’ve had to worry about preventing another tactic our adversaries are employing—nuclear coercion. Deterrence dissuades opponents from taking a certain action; in other words, it uses the threat of force to… → Read More

Biden Administration Cancels Routine Missile Test to Appease an Adversary

The military have hidden Minuteman III launch Facilities on the grounds of privately owner farmers in Montana. The launch facility contains a missile silo with an active nuclear Minuteman III missile that is ready to be fired. The launch facility is enclosed by a gate and monitored by surveillance cameras on privately owned farm land. There are over 400 Minuteman Silos in the Great Plains… → Read More

Biden Projects Weakness in Response to Putin’s Nuclear Saber Rattling

In the latest episode of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber rattling, Russia conducted the first test of its new giant intercontinental ballistic missile, which the West has code-named “Satan.” → Read More

Biden’s Change in Nuclear Policy Weakens Deterrence

President Biden has revised U.S. nuclear declaratory policy, which outlines the scenarios in which the U.S. would and would not use nuclear weapons. Henceforth, a fact sheet on the upcoming Nuclear Posture Review announced Mr. Biden’s policy that the “fundamental role” of our nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear attack, not, as previously declared, to deter both nuclear and nonnuclear attacks. → Read More

Putin Is Smiling: Why Did Biden Cancel the Navy’s New Nuclear Cruise Missile?

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to rattle his nuclear saber loudly. → Read More

Putin’s Nuclear Threats Against Ukraine Demand a NATO Response

In the days before Russia invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin rattled his nuclear saber. Hard. He personally oversaw massive military exercises that featured multiple "practice launches" of nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. He threatened Western nations with "consequences you have never seen" if they dared intervene to help the Ukrainians. As Moscow’s illegal and immoral war… → Read More

Putin’s Dangerous Nuclear Brinkmanship in Ukraine

Most Americans view nuclear weapons as a relic of the Cold War. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed in 1985 “that a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.” That thinking has remained a “given” for the last 37 years. Unfortunately, Russian President Vladimir Putin may have other ideas. → Read More

The Russian Threat: Bolstering NATO Deterrence at a Critical Time

The security and prosperity of the transatlantic community, including the United States, rests on the foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Russia’s ongoing war of naked aggression against Ukraine, a NATO non-member state, should put to rest any lingering questions about the modern utility of the Alliance and about which threat should be the focus of NATO’s upcoming… → Read More

In a Dangerous Move, Putin Orders Nuclear Forces to High Alert

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday morning ordered his military leaders to place nuclear forces on high-alert status during his war on Ukraine. We don’t know the details of what Putin’s order entails. Many of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces that can reach the U.S. already are kept on a high level of alert. → Read More

Faulty Assumptions About the Global Nuclear Threat May Require Changes in U.S. Sea-Based Nuclear Force

On December 9, 2010, it was decided that the design of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) would include eight fewer missile tubes than the 24 found on the Ohio-class SSBN. → Read More

Russian Nuclear Exercise a Reminder That Nuclear Deterrence Isn’t Relic of Past

Moscow announced Friday it would begin massive nuclear drills over the weekend that will entail practice launches of its intercontinental ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. → Read More

Congress Overdue To Help Fund Israel’s Iron Dome

With Russia poised to invade Ukraine, China ramping up aggression in the South China Sea and Iran inching closer toward the nuclear bomb, terrorist rocket attacks on Israel are no longer front-page news. That doesn’t mean they’ve stopped. What has stopped, at least for now, is congressional action to pass funding to replenish the Iron Dome, a missile defense system co-developed with the United… → Read More

Israel’s Laser Missile Defenses Show Promise for the Future

In response to increasing missile threats from regional terrorist groups, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that a new laser defense system will be deployed within a year to intercept incoming missile attacks. This news highlights the increasing pace of development and utility of using high-energy lasers—a directed energy weapon—for missile defense. → Read More

The Nuclear Posture Review Must Account for a Growing Chinese Nuclear Threat

Officials state the Biden Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will be ready for release soon. → Read More