President Joe Biden is declaring that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
By AAMER MADHANI, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOSH BOAK
“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” he added. He suggested the threat from Putin is real “because his military is — you might say — significantly underperforming.” One U.S. official said Biden was also trying to warn against underestimating the danger any level of tactical nuclear weapons.
“I have always refused to engage in political fiction, and especially … when speaking of nuclear weapons,” Macron said at a EU summit in Prague. “On this issue, we must be very careful.” It’s not the first time that Biden’s comments have appeared to push against the margins of U.S. policy.
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