There was a moment ofinvasion of Ukraine on the part of the Russia in which the use of anuclear weapon from Moscow. The biggest crisis since Cuba occurred in October 2022 and now numerous details are emerging thanks to a reconstruction of David E. Sangerhistoric journalist of New York Timeswho collected them in the book “New cold wars” with Mary K. Brooks. In a long extract published by NOWthe two looked back on the days when the White House seriously feared that Vladimir Putin was ready to drop one nuclear tactical bomb on Ukraine opening up to a scenario from “Armaggedon”as an open atomic clash between the two world superpowers is defined.
The date to circle in red is October 6, 2022. That evening Biden is a guest of James Murdoch, scion of the tycoon Rupert, in a luxurious apartment on the Upper East Side. Around him are wealthy Lib Dems who have shelled out thousands of dollars to listen to him. The president, on the other hand, is a lot worried and talks openly about how for the “first time since missile crisis Cuban the US was aware of “one direct threat of the use of a nuclear weapon if in fact things continue along the path they have” taken in Ukraine. Biden did not tell Murdoch’s guests what the source of what he was telling was, but – Sanger and Brooks reveal it – it was news collected by theintelligence who spoke of a nuclear attack in the “next weeks”.
The US 007s had it in hand wiretaps in which within the Russian army there was “frequent” talk about the possibility of using the nuclear arsenal. They were also discussing it responsible units of displacement and deployment of bombs. “The most alarming of the interceptions revealed that one of the cRussian military commanders older was explicitly discussing the logistics from the detonation of a weapon on the battlefield”, we read in the extract of the book published by New York Times. According to Ciaone of the breaking points could have been a Ukrainian counteroffensive effective or in any case potentially suitable for regaining the Crimea.
The use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, Biden had warned at Murdoch’s house, would push the world towards “l’Armaggedon” and the president had proven quite certain that Putin was not exaggerating when he spoke of the possibility of giving the green light to its use. “We have a guy I know quite well,” he said of the Russian president, specifying that “he is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons” given that his army was “underperforming”.
In the following days, we read more about New York TimesBiden deployed all the diplomacy possible to dissuade Putin from the idea. On the one hand, pressure was put on Chinese so that Xi Jinping also premises privately on Kremlin and on the other he sent “a message to Putin by inviting him to organize a urgent meeting between emissaries”. A face to face that happened. For Russia he participated Sergei Naryshkinhead of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, while the White House chose William J. Burns, the director of the CIA and former US ambassador to Russia. “I told him clearly that if Russia used unconventional weaponsthere would have been serious consequences on our part,” Burns himself says in the book. Naryshkin’s response? “He swore to me that he understood and assured that Putin did not intend to use nuclear weapons.”