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Running For It

Local residents run away after a drone attack in Kyiv on October 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Local residents run away after a drone attack in Kyiv on October 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP (Getty Images)

U.S. President Joe Biden has warned that the world is standing at the brink of potential nuclear armageddon, given the current war in Ukraine.

“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Biden said earlier this month, adding that Putin is, “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.”