White House: No Need to Change 'Strategic Nuclear Posture'

The White House on Friday said there is no need to alter the nation's strategic nuclear posture after President Joe Biden's recent comments on nuclear risk, The Hill reports.

Biden, at a recent fundraiser, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming." 

He also said: "We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis."