The ramped-up nuclear rhetoric by Russian officials comes after several significant losses in Ukraine this month.
Saturday after addressing the UN General Assembly the Kremlin has "a doctrine for nuclear security which is an open document.""We have been very clear with the Russians publicly, and, as well as privately, to stop the loose talk about nuclear weapons," Blinken told CBS News' ""It's very important that Moscow hear from us and know from us that the consequences would be horrific. And we've made that very clear," Blinken said.
Blinken added that he wouldn't "get into what the consequences would be" for the Kremlin, but the Biden administration had a plan for such an event and he noted that "any nuclear weapons would have catastrophic effects" for the country using them and others.Sullivan said during three separate interviews on Sunday that U.S. officials had warned their Moscow counterparts of "catastrophic consequences" if Putin's forces use nuclear arms in Ukraine.
Sullivan also told ABC, NBC and CBS News Sunday American officials told them the U.S. "will respond decisively." "In private channels we have spelled out in greater detail exactly what that would mean," he added in his interview on NBC's "
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