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"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis."

Publisher’s rating: Nuclear tensions are surely high

Related reporting connects the quoted statement to Russia’s nuclear threats during its invasion of Ukraine. It says that, after Putin made nuclear threats, Western leaders urged caution, and quotes Biden saying: “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” The excerpt places Biden’s remark in October 2022 and describes it as a warning about the prospect of nuclear escalation—not as a general claim that nuclear tensions had never been high at any other time. The article also supplies the immediate context: Ukraine was calling for support, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz argued against actions that could lead to a direct military confrontation between NATO and Russia. The excerpt therefore supports the attribution and setting of the statement, but does not provide a full assessment of how Biden’s comparison should be judged.