Putin's nukes could wipe out 5bn people and block out Sun for years, expert warns

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Russian despot Vladimir Putin's chilling nuclear warheads could wipe out five billion people and block out the sun should they be launched, an expert has warned.From 200 to 300 million dead from the initial blasts, subsequent crop troubles and radioactive soot would drop temperatures globally and starve billions.The chilling warning from disaster expert Paul Ingram comes as Putin threatens Western powers should they intervene in the Ukraine war. READ MORE: Putin's potential nuclear bomb blast will 'melt your brain and smell like rotten eggs'Warmonger Putin had previously promised to use "all means necessary" in a chilling attack that, according to expert Ingram, would mean the death of billions of people around the world.Speaking of the potential for devastation, Ingram told the Sun: "During the Cold War, it was often said that we had enough nuclear missiles to blow the world up several times over."That isn't the case anymore.

There are more than 12,000 nuclear warheads worldwide. Russia alone has almost 6,000 of them."The blast and radiation from these would lead to casualties of 200 to 300million worldwide.

On top of the immediate deaths, the all-out nuclear exchange would throw up so much radioactive soot that it would obscure the sun for several years."This would lead to the deaths of up to five billion people worldwide."Despite the billions of deaths, it could get even worse as Ingram admits the "breadbasket" of Ukraine, a prime source for wheat crops, would trigger worldwide food shortages if it were struck with nuclear missiles, The Sun reported.Ingram continued: "Crops would fail worldwide, and this would cause a lack of food.