New Delhi, June 12 -- US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a dire warning on Tuesday (June 10), claiming the world is closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before. The message came in a stark, three-minute video posted to her personal account on X, shortly after her visit to Hiroshima, Japan.

"I recently visited Hiroshima and stood at the epicenter of a city scarred by the unimaginable horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in 1945," Gabbard said in the video. "What I saw, the stories I heard, and the haunting sadness that remains, will stay with me forever."

Tulsi Gabbard called out what she described as a reckless global drift toward nuclear conflict, driven by political elites and warmongers.

"This is...