Liz Truss spent the last days of her term ‘preparing Putin to fire nuclear weapons’

Vladimir Putin it was like that close to the use of nuclear weapons in October 2022 that Liz Truss spent the last days of her premiership prepare for the possible consequencesclaims an updated version of her biography.

The former prime minister reportedly spent her last days in office as he studied weather maps and prepared for cases of radiation poisoning in Britain, amid American intelligence, a strike was imminent.

Mrs. Truss had been told that the Russian president was just hours away from deploying a nuclear bomb, which Whitehall officials feared would launch radioactive material into the atmosphere that could travel up to 1,700 miles from the blast, according to reports Out of nowherean unauthorized biography of the short-lived former prime minister.

An updated edition of the book, written by journalists Harry Cole and James Heale, states that Ms Truss “spent countless hours studying satellite weather data and wind directions” over fears that the “wrong weather patterns” had a “direct fallout effect on Great Britain”. .

There was reportedly “excellent” intelligence from the Americans indicating a 50 percent chance that Russia would use a tactical nuclear bomb in Ukraine or a larger bomb over the Black Sea.

Excerpts from the book, published by The sunlaid out the gruesome details of how close the war came to nuclear escalation.

It added that he became the then defense minister on October 18 that year Ben Wallace traveled to Washington to discuss the crisis. At the same time the American president Joe Biden said there was an “immediate threat” that Russia would use nuclear weapons if “things continue on the current path.” “A nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought,” Biden said at the time.

The updated version of Out of nowhere follows the publication of Ms Truss’s own book, Ten years to save the Westwhich included a series of bombshell claims about her 49 days in office.

Ms Truss, who lost her seat at the general election, claimed she thought: “Why me, why now?” after hearing that the queen had died, and said Boris JohnsonHis dog left fleas in number 10.

The former prime minister’s book also detailed how her husband predicted her premiership would “all end in tears”.

She wrote about the moment she learned that her predecessor, Mr. Johnson, was being forced to resign.

Ms Truss was in Bali as Foreign Secretary at the time and said: “As I was walking along the beach in Indonesia I started to cry.

“Even Hugh (her husband), who predicted it would all end in tears, accepted that this was the moment I was expected to run and that if I didn’t people would say I put it in a bottle had stopped,” Ms Truss wrote.