{"id":27782,"date":"2022-10-07T15:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27782"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:50:27","slug":"ukraine-war-biden-says-nuclear-risk-highest-since-1962-cuban-missile-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27782","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: Biden says nuclear risk highest since 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The risk of a nuclear &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, US President Joe Biden has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Biden said Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin was &#8220;not joking&#8221; when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering setbacks in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US was &#8220;trying to figure out&#8221; Mr Putin&#8217;s way out of the war, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US and the EU have previously said Mr Putin&#8217;s nuclear sabre-rattling should be taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan last week said that, despite Moscow&#8217;s nuclear hints, the US had seen no signs that Russia was imminently preparing to use a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-60564123\">How many nuclear weapons does Russia have?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine has been retaking territory occupied by Russia, including in the four regions Russia illegally annexed recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For several months US officials have been warning that Russia could resort to the use of weapons of mass destruction, if it suffers setbacks on the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Biden said the Russian leader had not been &#8220;joking&#8221; when he talked about using tactical nuclear, biological or chemical weapons &#8211; &#8220;because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they&#8217;d been going,&#8221; Mr Biden told fellow Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: The risk of a nuclear &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, US President Joe Biden has said. Mr Biden said Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin was &#8220;not joking&#8221; when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering setbacks in Ukraine. The US was &#8220;trying to figure out&#8221; Mr Putin&#8217;s way out of the war, he added. The US and the EU have previously said Mr Putin&#8217;s nuclear sabre-rattling should be taken seriously. However, the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan last week said that, despite Moscow&#8217;s nuclear hints, the US had seen&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27784,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27782\/revisions\/27784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}