Sun News Desk: US President Joe Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning to use nuclear weapons has created the biggest threat since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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President Biden said Russia's President Vladimir Putin was "not joking" when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering setbacks in Ukraine. The US was "trying to figure out" Mr Putin's way out of the war.

The US and the EU have previously said Mr Putin's nuclear sabre-rattling should be taken seriously.

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The presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962 brought the United States under President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev close to using nuclear weapons. This situation is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Biden made clear on Thursday that he is trying to understand and watching carefully how Putin might react to Ukraine's military gains against Russia.

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"This is the first time since the Cuban missile crisis that we have had a direct threat of using nuclear weapons," Biden told a rally of Democratic Party in New York.

Mr Biden said that US officials are looking for a diplomatic way out of the situation. We are trying to figure out how Putin can get out of here.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously dismissed Moscow's nuclear threats as a "constant narrative of Russian officials and propagandists".

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