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Julian Borger in Washington and Jennifer Rankin in Prague

BIZARRE: Biden s armageddon warning wasn t based on new intelligence us says - What They Never Told You

Joe Biden speaks in Hagerstown, Maryland, on 7 October.
Joe Biden speaks in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Friday. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

The White House has said that Joe Biden’s warning of “Armageddon” if Russia uses a nuclear weapon in Ukraine was not based on any new intelligence suggesting such nuclear use is imminent.

The US president issued his warning at a private fundraising event in New York on Thursday evening, in his most outspoken remarks yet on the threat of wartime nuclear weapons being used for the first time since 1945.

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