Nuclear war fear more pressing

Sir, – Over the last two decades we have been bombarded with claims about how we have to save the planet by reducing CO2.

Meanwhile the possibility of nuclear war has been ignored almost completely. But nuclear war could really end all human and animal life and leave the planet a frozen uninhabitable irradiated horror.

There are 12,700 nuclear weapons in nine nuclear states, most of these in US and Russian arsenals.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has modelled what would happen in a nuclear war between Russia (population 146million) and the NATO alliance (population 944m) in the 10 months after a nuclear exchange.

In the first 24 hours 86m Russians would die, and 92m in NATO countries.

In 30 days 548m would have died. The fallout would condemn hundreds of millions more to die a lingering painful death until the nuclear winter set in.

The fallout dust would block the sun and temperatures would plunge to Antarctic levels even in The Tropics. It would be -76C in Britain.

This is not scaremongering. It’s what nuclear scientists have demonstrated will happen should the use of a “tactical” nuclear bomb escalate to all out nuclear war.

This could happen if the unhinged president of the Russian Federation thinks he is losing in Ukraine.

Meanwhile Greenpeace – which originally wanted the Peace part of its name to work for a non-nuclear world – and various other parasitic organisations such Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion continue to alarm us about the temperature possibly rising by 1.5C.

You couldn’t make it up. William Loneskie, Justice Park, Oxton.