United States President Joe Biden has warned the risk of nuclear “armageddon” is at its highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
This is as Russia talks openly about the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons in its invasion of Ukraine.
Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “not joking when he talked about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming.”
He challenged Russian nuclear doctrine, warning that the use of a lower-yield tactical weapon could quickly spiral out of control.
“I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.
"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
Putin has repeatedly alluded to using his country’s vast nuclear arsenal, including last month when he announced the annexation of four areas of Ukraine that Russia does not fully control.
“We will defend our land with all the powers and means at our disposal,” he said.
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