to world peace and let no one doubt this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. neil: 60 years ago this very month, we were on the brink, the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war. thereby a few other decision it could have been. now we re facing potentially the same predicament, what president biden calls potential armageddon given some of the retaliatory efforts and provocative moves on the part of vladamir putin talking freely about using tactical nuclear weapons of saying nothing of what seems to be daily missile strikes out of north korea, a couple of which just went over japan this past week. we re not even getting into china s provocations of the south china sea and presidents in anything taiwan, and new york, taiwan, south korea and on and on. some are criticizing the president for even mentioning the armageddon word and his massage was to let the message was to let the world be on notice and nothing to do with happening events here
down and let them know you ve got it under control. it makes me worry that he s ready for this. reporter: it s not clear, neil, what the u.s. reaction should be should russia decide to launch an attack in ukraine. neil: thank you, lucas. a little scary. go to lieutenant colonel bob mgcuiness. colonel, can you see vladamir putin making good on a tactical nuclear weapon threat? i can. last week, neil, he said u.s. created a precedent back in 45 with the attacks on hiroshima and nagasaki and that was from the ultimatum he gave days prior and putin has isolated himself and not listening to his ministers and reliant on his inner circle to advise him, he s very matter of fact.