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While its a worry, if you were to graph the likelihood of this occurring, you're actually at possibly one of the lower points in human history. The peak would be during the 1960s and the Cuban Missile Crisis where US Nuclear bombers were in the air before being called off by Kennedy.
The next highest peak would have likely been in the early 80s with Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI aka "Star Wars") which threatened to unbalance the sides.
Early 90s would be next, but lower still. Right up until the fall of the Soviet Union there could have been a last grasp.
But now its relatively unlikely in all out nuclear war resulting in Nuclear Winter. Russia may fire a tactical nuke in or near Ukraine, but even that would likely be met with a conventional response from NATO.
So the trend over decades is down not up that we'll have to face Nuclear Winter.
I... am not sure I believe you. Putin basically made a statement that he would support full-scale nuclear war and that more or less "God would sort it out".
Wait do you have a source for that?
Uh... I'd have to look it up again.