Joe Biden
Biden’s ‘Armageddon’ warning wasn’t based on new intelligence, US says
US president made most outspoken remark on threat of wartime nuclear weapons when speaking at a fundraiser on Thursday
Joe Biden speaks in Hagerstown, Maryland, on 7 October.
Julian Borger in Washington and Jennifer Rankin in Prague
Fri 7 Oct 2022 21.01 BST
The White House has said that Joe Biden’s warning of “Armageddon” if Russia uses a nuclear weapon in Ukraine was not based on any new intelligence suggesting such nuclear use is imminent.
The US president issued his warning at a private fundraising event in New York on Thursday evening, in his most outspoken remarks yet on the threat of wartime nuclear weapons being used for the first time since 1945.