Joe Biden warns of risk of &#039;nuclear apocalypse&#039;

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07 Oct. 2022 / 09:01

Joe Biden warns of risk of 'nuclear apocalypse'

American President Joe Biden assessed, on Thursday, that Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine put the world at risk of "apocalypse" for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, in full swing of the Cold War, reports lefigaro.fr .

"We haven't faced the prospect of an apocalypse since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" in 1962, he said at a fundraiser in New York, where he emphasized that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was "not kidding" by making these threats.

"There is, for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons if things continue as they are now," he said.

From October 14 to 28, 1962, the missile crisis installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union and detected by the United States shook the planet, raising fears of a nuclear war. Faced with Ukrainian resistance, fueled by Western military aid, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb in a TV speech on September 21. He said he was ready to use "every means" in his arsenal against the West, which he accused of wanting to "destroy" Russia. "It's not a bluff," he assured.

Experts say such attacks would likely use tactical nuclear weapons - smaller in explosive charge than a strategic nuclear weapon. But Joe Biden warned that even a tactical nuclear strike could trigger a wider conflagration. "I don't think you can easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon without ending up causing the apocalypse," he said.

Vladimir Putin "isn't kidding when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his army, one could say, is very ineffective," the American president said.

"We are trying to understand what is Putin's way out," Joe Biden finally confessed. "How can he get out of this? How can he position himself so that he doesn't lose a significant part of his power in Russia?".

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