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No 'indications' of Russian nuclear use despite Biden warning: W.House by AFP Staff Writers Aboard Air Force One (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 The United States sees no sign of Russian preparations to use a nuclear weapon in the near future, the White House said Friday after President Joe Biden warned that the world risks "Armageddon." "We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture, nor do we have indications that Russia is preparing imminently to use nuclear weapons," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. Asked if Biden's alarming comment -- made late Thursday while criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin -- reflected new intelligence, she said "no." "The president was speaking about concerns about Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons," she said. Asked about Biden's assertion on Thursday that the United States was trying to find an "off ramp" for Putin to deescalate in his invasion of Ukraine before he resorts to weapons of mass destruction, Jean-Pierre said the US position has not changed. "There is only one country responsible for this war," she said. "And that's Russia. They started this conflict and Mr Putin has the ability to stop this conflict today." Biden's comments on Thursday were unusually direct about the dangers from Putin's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons to assist Russia's faltering attempt to take over swaths of Ukraine. Referring to the nuclear standoff 60 years ago triggered by the Soviet Union stationing missiles in Cuba, within easy range of the United States, Biden said that for the "first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat from the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they are going." "We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since" then, Biden said. Jean-Pierre said that "if the Cuban missile crisis has taught us anything, it is the value of reducing nuclear risk and not brandishing that."
Nuclear 'Armageddon' threat back for first time since Cold War: Biden New York (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 US President Joe Biden said Thursday the world risks nuclear "Armageddon" for the first time since the Cold War and that he is trying to find Russian President Vladimir Putin's "off-ramp" in the Ukraine conflict. "We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis" in 1962, Biden said at a Democratic Party fundraising event in New York, referring to former US president John F Kennedy. Putin is "not joking" when he threatens to use nuclear weapons to pursue hi ... read more
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