An RAF chief has warned that a nuclear war is only “a few steps away” as tensions between Russia and the West rise.
His warning comes amid growing concerns that the conflict in Ukraine could devolve into a nuclear-armed World War Three.
Lord West previously warned that a single miscalculation in the Russia-Ukraine crisis could spark a nuclear war.
Air Marshal Edward Stringer CBE has now told LBC that the prospect of nuclear war would be a “weight on the minds” of world leaders.
“It’s no longer unthinkable, and it will clearly be weighing on the minds of those who are making all the political calculations right now, hence the very straight and consistent line from Biden and all of us,” he said.
He added: “It’s in the realms of possibility, and that’s what people have to get their heads around.”
