‘Real’ danger of Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons, warns Joe Biden
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The threat of Vladimir Putin using tactical nuclear weapons is “real”, Joe Biden has said, days after denouncing the Kremlin’s deployment of such devices in Belarus.
On Saturday, the US president called his Russian counterpart’s announcement that Moscow had deployed its first tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus “absolutely irresponsible”.
“When I was out here about two years ago saying I worried about the Colorado river drying up, everybody looked at me like I was crazy,” Mr Biden told a group of donors in California on Monday.
The deployment is Russia’s first move of such warheads – shorter-range, less powerful nuclear weapons that could be used on the battlefield – outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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