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Ukraine war: how the Biden administration is responding to Putin's threats to go nuclear

Joe Biden has warned that any use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine by Russia could lead to “Armageddon”. Speaking at a Democratic fundraising event in New York on October 6, the US president said the crisis was the closest the world had come to nuclear catastrophe for sixty years.

The Conversation

Poland says it is in talks to host US nuclear weapons

White House official denies knowledge of the issue

The Independent UK

Three in four Americans say U.S. should support Ukraine despite Russian threats: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Nearly three-quarters of Americans say that the United States should continue to support Ukraine, despite Russian threats that it could use nuclear weapons to protect its territory, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday.

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Poland suggests hosting US nuclear weapons amid growing fears of Putin’s threats

Request is widely seen as symbolic, as moving nuclear warheads closer to Russia would make them less militarily useful

The Guardian - US

U.S. accuses China, Russia of enabling North Korea's Kim Jong Un

The United States accused China and Russia on Wednesday of enabling North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by protecting Pyongyang from attempts to strengthen U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

Reuters

Ukraine takes swaths of territory, despite Russia’s mobilisation

In week 32 of the war, Kyiv makes more advances in the east and south while Moscow pulls back forces from Crimea.

Al Jazeera

Pentagon says can't corroborate reports of Russian nuclear arms movement

A senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday she had no information to corroborate reports suggesting Russia might be moving tactical nuclear weapons by rail, and added the U.S. military had not seen anything to change its own nuclear posture.

Reuters

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White House says has no indication Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons

The United States has no indication that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons, despite "nuclear saber-rattling" by Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday.

Reuters

NATO seen no changes in Russia's nuclear posture, alliance official says

NATO has not observed changes in Russia's nuclear posture but is vigilant, an alliance official said on Tuesday, commenting after Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated the war in Ukraine with a mobilisation and warnings of nuclear weapons use.

Reuters

UK warns Russia of consequences for any nuclear weapon use

Britain's foreign minister James Cleverly on Tuesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin's sequence of strategic errors must stop and that any use of nuclear weapons would lead to consequences.

Reuters

North Korea’s latest missile test reminds the world of Asia’s powder keg

SINGAPORE — With the war in Ukraine and Russia’s threats to deploy tactical nuclear weapons, it was easy to lose sight of the rising danger North Korea poses to peace in Asia.

Los Angeles Times

Nuclear war: does it take luck or reasoning to avoid it? Lessons from the Cuban missile crisis, 60 years on

The United States and the Soviet Union came dangerously close to war in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. Just ahead of its 60th anniversary, Russian president Vladimir Putin is issuing nuclear threats following the unexpectedly poor performance of his troops in Ukraine. The invasion poses a new kind…

The Conversation

Kremlin dismisses UK media report on Russian nuclear test

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it did not want to take part in "nuclear rhetoric" from the West after a media report that Russia was preparing to demonstrate its willingness to use nuclear weapons in its conflict with Ukraine.

Reuters

Fears Vladimir Putin plotting to test nuclear weapon after top-secret convoy spotted

Upgraded armoured vehicles and other military equipment linked to Russia's nefarious 12th Main Directorate - which is responsible for the country's nuclear weapons - were seen aboard a freight train trundling through central Russia

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Russia's nuclear threat must be taken seriously - German foreign minister

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that while Russia's threat to resort to nuclear weapons must be taken seriously, the international community has made clear that it won't be daunted by them.

Reuters

Will Russia use nuclear weapons? Putin's warnings explained

President Vladimir Putin, who rules the world's biggest nuclear power, has repeatedly cautioned the West that any attack on Russia could provoke a nuclear response.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Could Repeat Syria’s Ghouta, Aleppo Scenarios in Ukraine

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the former commander of the UK and NATO chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) forces, warned that strategic nuclear weapons can change the planet as we know it. Russia and the West, including the US, UK, and France, have nearly 6,000 warheads between them. If launched, these…

The Independent UK

What's Putin thinking? Tough to know for nuclear analysts

Trying to figure out what Russian President Vladimir Putin is thinking is tough for Kremlin watchers who want to know whether he is bluffing with his nuclear threats

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Vladimir Putin sends 'nuclear military train' to Ukraine front line amid escalation fears

A military convoy has been pictured heading towards the frontline on a train connected to a Russian defence division that handles nuclear weapons and maintains storage facilities

The Independent UK

Chechen leader Kadyrov sends three teenage sons, one aged 14, to fight in Ukraine

’The time has come to show themselves in a real battle,’ says warlord

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's henchman sends sons aged 14 to 16 into Ukraine war after nuke threat

Ramzan Kadyrov is sending his teenage sons, the youngest of whom is 14, to fight in Ukraine just days after urging Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in the conflict

Los Angeles Times

Doyle McManus: Putin's threat of a nuclear strike on Ukraine may not be a bluff. What do we do now?

After weeks of reverses, Russia's army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine.

AAP

Russian ambassador sends nuclear warning

The Australian government is backing Ukraine's claims of genocide against its citizens and is considering expelling the Russian ambassador.

The Guardian - US

Petraeus: US would destroy Russia’s troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Former CIA director and retired army general says Moscow’s leader is ‘desperate’ and ‘battlefield reality he faces is irreversible’

Wales Online

Vladimir Putin 'highly unlikely' to use nuclear weapons but is 'totally irrational', Defence Secretary says

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will join a crisis meeting of European nations after the Nord Stream pipelines suffered damage

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