'If the Cuban missile crisis has taught us anything, it is the value of reducing nuclear risk, not brandishing it,' a White House spokesperson told Newsweek.
U-2 spy plane sparked a series of events that would bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.
While the harrowing, roughly 13-day affair that's come to be known in the United States as the Cuban Missile Crisis — or the Caribbean Crisis to those in Russia — was ultimately resolved peacefully with a mutual withdrawal of weapons of mass destruction from the frontiers of the two superpowers, the specter of nuclear war has lingered, surviving the fall of the Soviet Union only to emerge once again six decades later.
And Biden said that Putin, whom the U.S. leader claims to"know fairly well" is"not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical and nuclear weapons.", asked the White House what lessons from that era of brinksmanship the Biden administration was applying in today's fraught geopolitical climate.
U.S. President Joe Biden, former President John F. Kennedy, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Soviet Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev are seen in this photo collage.The view is far different in Moscow, however, where Washington is seen as once again attempting to impose its worldview abroad, even as the U.S. and its allies accuse Russia of doing the same in Ukraine.
"The Russophobic American elites are thinking irrationally and pushing the U.S. leadership to open confrontation with Russia," he added,"and eventually to the irresponsible escalation of international tensions."
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