Liz Truss reportedly spend her final days in office in fear of a nuclear attack. Picture: Alamy
* Truss was told Putin might explode a weapon in the air above the Black Sea
* Radiation could pose threat to Europe if weapon blew in the direction
* Ms Truss became fixated with the weather after hearing about possibility
When Liz Truss was told, during the dying days of her mayfly Premiership, that the security services were picking up intelligence that Vladimir Putin might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine it sent a chill down her spine.
The Prime Minister was still adjusting to getting used to a new mobile phone number, for the first time in over a decade, as a result of a hack suspected to have been backed or orchestrated by the Kremlin, potentially giving Putin access to information about Western support for President Volodymyr Zelensky's regime.
In particular, Ms Truss was told that Putin might explode a weapon in the air above the Black Sea, which would show the West what he was capable of without triggering a full-scale nuclear war.
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Update: Liz Truss 'obsessed with wind charts and weather forecasts because she feared nuclear fallout' in final days in office (LBC).
WNU Editor: It looks like she blindly trusted her intelligence services. She should have been more skeptical.
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Was there no expert at hand to explain radiation effects of a tactical nuke?
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