World closest to nuclear armageddon since Cuban missile crisis, Sunak claims

Rishi Sunak has warned that the world is at its closest to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis.

The prime minister made the comments in a varied speech about threats the UK faces in the coming years, citing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Middle Eastern tensions.

The Cuban missile crisis was 13-day confrontation in 1962 in which the US and Russia faced off over the installing of long-range missiles in Cuba, close to American territory.

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