Biden Details Risk Of Nuclear “Armageddon” From Russia

NEW YORK (AP) – President Joe Biden says the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Biden’s words come as Russian officials speak of possibly using tactical nuclear weapons after massive setbacks in their invasion of Ukraine. Biden’s ominous words were at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. He said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a guy I know fairly well” and that Putin was “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.” For months now, U.S. officials have warned that Russia could use weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine to counter strategic setbacks on the battlefield. However Biden’s remarks are the starkest warnings yet issued by the U.S. government about the use of nukes.