Armageddon

2022 - 10 - 7

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Biden warns of nuclear 'Armageddon' as Putin's military struggles (NBC News)

President Joe Biden said the risk of nuclear "Armageddon" is the highest it's been in roughly 60 years after renewed threats by Russian President Vladimir ...

This is still known popularly as "the red telephone," although “I don’t think it means he is any more likely to do it than he was yesterday.” His somewhat unguarded comments were not said on camera but reported by journalists as part of the pool reporting system. “I think it signals that he wants people to think he would risk nuclear war,” Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Where does he find himself where he does not only lose face but significant power?" With pressure growing over those defeats and the chaotic mobilization at home, fears have intensified that he may be willing to escalate further rather than accept defeat. "We’ve got a guy I know fairly well. Where does he find a way out? [ call-up of 300,000 Russian troops](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-announces-partial-mobilization-russian-military-ukraine-war-rcna48585) after his military forces [ suffered severe setbacks](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-surprise-counteroffensive-kharkiv-russia-land-east-rcna46805) on the battlefield in Ukraine. [renewed his threats](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nuclear-threat-putin-ukraine-war-bluffing-rcna48713) as his [military retreats in Ukraine](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-military-retreat-ukraine-kremlin-criticism-shoigu-russia-rcna51168). [said](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nuclear-threat-putin-ukraine-war-bluffing-rcna48713) in a televised national address. [Russia invaded Ukraine](https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia-ukraine-news) in February.

Pentagon: No sign Putin is planning to use nukes after Biden's ... (Politico)

The Pentagon said Friday that it still has seen no indications that Vladimir Putin is planning to launch nuclear weapons after President Joe Biden warned of ...

But if Putin chooses to go down that route, the West may not have much advance notice, officials warned. “I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily [use] a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.” Where does he find himself in a position that he does not only lose face but lose significant power within Russia?” Patrick Ryder told reporters that the department does not have any information that would cause it to change its nuclear posture. officials told POLITICO that nothing has changed on the nuclear front in the past 24 hours. is taking Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons, Defense Department spokesperson J.

Biden's scary invocation of nuclear 'Armageddon' (The Washington Post)

Speaking at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event, Biden said that, for the "first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat of ...

He communicated directly with high-ranking Soviet officials, including [leading a delegation in 1979 for talks about the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, or SALT](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/08/31/kosygin-renews-pledge-on-bomber/092b33f4-e352-445d-a7d9-94edf572314c/?itid=lk_inline_manual_40). Senate in the mid-1970s, and one of his biggest priorities early in his tenure [nuclear briefcase](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/25/18196416/nuclear-war-boris-yeltsin-1995-norway-rocket) was brought to him over fears of an inbound ballistic missile from Norway that Russia believed might be a strike from the Americans. The A-word is back in Biden’s public rhetoric — for the first time, at least in this foreign affairs context, since that Thanksgiving 2020 speech. And the threats to use nuclear weapons are very much out in the open. [on a level not seen in many years, if ever](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/26/putin-nuclear-threat-bluff-us-biden-response/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10), with Russia [threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/05/russia-nuclear-weapons-military-arsenal/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10). He was elected to the U.S. Then, there was a real danger of escalation to a global thermonuclear war that could bring humanity within minutes to Armageddon dimension. has never voiced anything like the current level of concern that a nuclear weapon might be used.” In 1983, the Soviet Union readied nuclear-equipped planes in East Germany during a NATO exercise. “There is no example since 1962 that comes even close to the concrete threats that Putin has been making,” said Paul D’Anieri, an expert at the University of California at Riverside on the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. In 1967, the U.S.

White House: Biden's "Armageddon" warning not based on any new ... (Axios)

President Biden warned that the United States faces the highest chance of "Armageddon." since the Cuba missile crisis.

[Biden](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon) said at a fundraiser Thursday night that 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," faces the highest chance of "Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis" after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a [veiled nuclear threat](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/putin-announces-partial-military-mobilization-for-russian-citizens) last month. [Biden: Putin could escalate "prospect of Armageddon" with nuclear weapons](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon) - "We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture," she added. [Biden: Putin could escalate "prospect of Armageddon" with nuclear weapons](/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon) [Biden](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon) warned Thursday that the U.S.

Biden's 'Armageddon' warning wasn't based on new intelligence, US ... (The Guardian)

US president made most outspoken remark on threat of wartime nuclear weapons when speaking at a fundraiser on Thursday. Joe Biden speaks in Hagerstown, ...

“I’m not someone who thinks escalation within a nuclear war is inevitable, but neither am I terribly sanguine about the prospects for managing it,” Acton said. “The president was speaking about concerns about Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons,” Jean-Pierre said. He said: “We take the threat and all threats of any escalation very seriously … “I don’t think there’s any such thing as an ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.” We have a clear stance on how to proceed.” Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said that gathering had shown strong determination to support Ukraine and “firmness in our condemnation of Russia”.

Biden says risk of 'nuclear Armageddon' highest in 60 years (Aljazeera.com)

US president compares threat now with the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought world to brink of catastrophe in 1962.

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres also described the plan as a “ “Where does he find a way out?” Biden asked. She also stressed that Washington will “not be intimated” by Putin’s threats.