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October 7, 2022

Biden Says Putin "Not Joking" About Threat to Use Nuclear Weapons
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President Biden has warned the world faces the threat of "Armageddon" if
Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to use a nuclear weapon in
Ukraine. Biden was speaking at a Thursday evening fundraiser for the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee at the home of James Murdoch,
son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. In widely quoted remarks, Biden said,
"For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct
threat of the use of nuclear weapons if in fact things continue down the
path they are going. … [Putin is] not joking when he talks about
potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical
weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly
underperforming."


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