Risk of famine and nuclear war

Price of war: A woman standing inside her damaged house after it was hit by a missile in Bakhmut, Donbass in Ukraine. — AFP

THE war in Ukraine, now entering its fourth month, has not only worsened rising food and energy prices across the world but also raised the spectre of the conflict escalating into a nuclear war.

The risk of a global nuclear conflict is now at the highest level since the Cold War, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which assesses developments in international security and military spending on conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.