“The nuclear risk is the highest since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis,” Biden said
US President Joe Biden has said the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at its highest since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Mr Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “not joking” when he talked about using strategic nuclear weapons after the setbacks in Ukraine.
He said the US was trying to find a way out of Mr Putin’s war.
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The US and the European Union have previously said Mr Putin’s nuclear attack should be taken seriously.
However, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said last week that despite Moscow’s nuclear signals, the US saw no signs that Russia was preparing to use a nuclear weapon.
Ukraine is re-occupying Russian-held territory, including four territories that Russia has illegally occupied recently.
For months, US officials have been warning that Russia may resort to weapons of mass destruction if it suffers a setback on the battlefield.
President Biden said Russian leaders were “not joking” when talking about using strategic nuclear, biological or chemical weapons – “because their military is, you might say, underperforming.” Huh”.
“For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if indeed things continue on the path they were headed,” Biden told fellow Democrats.
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“We haven’t faced the prospect of Armageddon since the Kennedy and Cuban missile crises.”
During a speech last Friday, President Putin said the US had created a “job” by using nuclear weapons against Japan at the end of World War II – a remark that goes unnoticed by Western governments, our Russia’s. Editor Steve Rosenberg explains.
Mr Putin has also threatened to use every means at his disposal to defend Russian territory.
When Mr Putin signed the final papers formally capturing four regions of Ukraine – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson, Kyiv’s forces were advancing inside the areas they claimed.
Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Russia instead of waiting to be ready to fight in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously dismissed Moscow’s nuclear threats as a “constant narrative of Russian officials and propagandists”.
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Paul Stronsky of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told the BBC that Russia’s “destabilizing rhetoric” is aimed at deterring the West.
In Russia itself, there has been some pushback against Moscow’s nuclear threats. “Senior Russian officials” were heavily criticized for “talking about the nuclear button” in an editorial in the country’s mainstream Nezvisimaya Gazeta newspaper.
“There is a definite step forward, in thought and in words, to allow the possibility of nuclear conflict into reality.”
A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman told reporters on Thursday that Moscow had not changed its position that nuclear war “should never be waged”.
Mr Biden’s remarks came during a Democratic fundraising event at the New York home of James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
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“The nuclear risk is the highest since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis,” Biden said
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