- Speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser Oct. 6, President Biden said that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” has reached the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.”
- Biden added: “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” He suggested the threat from Putin is real “because his military is — you might say — significantly underperforming.”
