Biden talks about the threat of 'nuclear apocalypse'
(Baonghean.vn) - On October 6, US President Joe Biden said that the threat to use nuclear weapons from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin posed the greatest risk since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The White House has repeatedly said the US has seen no signs of Russia preparing to use nuclear weapons despite President Putin's "nuclear threats." However, President Biden said he remains wary of his counterpart Putin and how the Russian leader might respond as Ukraine's military advances in its war with Russia.
Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in New York City, President Biden said: "For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we are facing a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons, if things continue as they are. We have not faced a doomsday scenario since President Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis."
According to the White House owner, President Putin "was not joking when mentioning the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because it can be said that the Russian army is currently significantly reducing its operational performance."
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the United States under President John Kennedy and the Soviet Union under leader Nikita Khrushchev came close to using nuclear weapons because the Soviet Union deployed missiles in Cuba./.
