According to an updated version of his biography, Vladimir Putin came dangerously close to using nuclear weapons in October 2022, prompting then-UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to prepare for the possible consequences during her final days in office. Was inspired to.
Reports indicate that Ms Truss spent her last days as Prime Minister checking weather maps and preparing for radiation poisoning cases in Britain, as US intelligence suggested an imminent nuclear attack. Independent Informed.
Ms Truss was reportedly informed that the Russian President was just hours away from deploying a nuclear weapon, leading British officials to fear that the explosion could release radioactive material that would spread up to 1,700 miles. Revised version of out of the blueAn unauthorized biography by journalists Harry Cole and James Heal claims that Truss “spent many hours studying satellite weather data and wind directions”, concerned that adverse weather patterns “might have a direct impact on Britain “
According to reports, US intelligence has raised a 50 percent chance that Russia could use either a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine or a large bomb over the Black Sea, with the intelligence described as “excellent”.
Excerpts from Out of the Blue published by SunThe disturbing details reveal how easily the war avoided nuclear escalation. On October 18 of that year, then-Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace traveled to Washington to address the crisis. Around the same time, President Joe Biden warned that Russia would make a “direct threat” using nuclear weapons if the situation continued to escalate, saying, “A nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought.”
The updated edition of Out of the Blue was released after former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s book, Ten Years to Save the Waste, contained astonishing claims about her 49 days in office.
In her memoir, Ms Truss, who lost her seat in the general election, revealed that on learning of the Queen’s death, she thought, “Why me, why now?” She also mentioned that Boris Johnson’s dog had left fleas in Number 10, describing how her husband had predicted that her time as Prime Minister would “end in tears.”
Ms Truss said she learned of Johnson’s forced resignation while she was in Bali as Foreign Secretary. She recalled, “As soon as I walked on the beach in Indonesia, I started crying. Even Hugh (her husband), who had predicted it would end in tears, agreed. That this was the moment when I was expected to step up. If I didn’t do it, people would say I had backed down.”
