“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
What PolitiFact found
U.S.-Russian nuclear tensions are unusually high, though maybe not unprecedentedly so. Tactical nuclear detonations by Russia are more plausible now than in recent history, though a literal "Armageddon" is hardly assured
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 6 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 October 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “Nuclear tensions are surely high”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/10/06/remarks-by-president…
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