While some analysts suspect that even a tactical nuke will not help Russian military fortunes, the threat has rattled many in the media and high policy circles in the West.
October 09, 2022
According to the AP, President Joe Biden decided to pour gasoline on the fire at a Democratic fundraiser. His remarks on Ukraine took place at the end of his address. He stated that Putin is “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.”
Biden said, “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
October 09, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1963 when American intelligence discovered that the Soviets had placed nuclear-tipped missiles on the island of Cuba. Then President John F. Kennedy decided that the rockets constituted an intolerable threat because they put American cities within a few minutes of a nuclear strike.
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Kennedy instituted a naval “quarantine” of Cuba to attempt to force the Soviets to withdraw the missiles. The quarantine and a series of back-channel negotiations achieved Kennedy’s goals. However, many historians believe that the world came close to a thermonuclear exchange that would have ended human civilization.
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Biden’s comparison has many people concerned. Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, stated, “People sort of say, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s Biden. You know, he says this stuff.’”
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Kristensen said, “But overseas countries are saying, ‘Whoa, this is what the U.S. president says.’ And so that means we have to be really careful about using big words” Such words could lead to an unintentional escalation involving nuclear weapons. This nightmare has haunted people since the beginning of the Cold War.
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According to NBC News, Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, thinks that Putin may be bluffing. “I think it signals that he wants people to think he would risk nuclear war. I don’t think it means he is any more likely to do it than he was yesterday.”
On the other hand, comparing the Cuban Missile Crisis to its logical conclusion, to paraphrase the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Joe Biden is no John Kennedy.
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