Vladimir Putin came alarmingly close to using nuclear weapons in October 2022, according to an updated version of his biography, prompting then-British Prime Minister Liz Truss to prepare for possible consequences in her final days in office.

Reports suggest Ms Truss spent her final days as prime minister studying weather maps and preparing for radiation poisoning cases in the UK, with US intelligence suggesting a nuclear attack was imminent. Independent reported.

Ms Truss was reportedly informed that the Russian President was just hours away from deploying a nuclear weapon that British officials feared would release radioactive material that would spread up to 2,700 miles from detonation. revised edition Out of BlueTruss, an unauthorized biography by journalists Harry Cole and James Heale, claims to have spent “countless hours studying satellite weather data and wind directions”, concerned that adverse weather conditions could lead to “a direct fallout effect on Britain”.

According to reports, US intelligence stated that there was a 50 percent chance that Russia could use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine or a larger bomb over the Black Sea, while the intelligence was described as “excellent”.

Excerpts from Out of the Blue published by Sunreveals disturbing details of how narrowly the war avoided nuclear escalation. On October 18 of the same year, then-Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace went to Washington to find a solution to the crisis. Around the same time, President Joe Biden warned of a “direct threat” of Russia 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 follows former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s book Ten Years to Save the West, which contains stunning allegations about her 49 days in office.

Miss Truss, who lost her seat in the general election, wrote in her memoirs that when she learned of the Queen’s death, she asked: “Why me, why now?” He said he thought: She also said Boris Johnson’s dog left fleas in Number 10 and predicted her husband’s time as prime minister would “end in tears”.

Ms Truss said she learned that Johnson had been forced to resign while she was in Bali as foreign secretary. She recalls: “As I walked along the beach in Indonesia, I started crying. Even Hugh (her husband), who predicted it would end in tears, agreed that this was the moment for me to step up. If I hadn’t, people would have said I was stepping back.”