1) Putan was a KGB hardliner before the fall of the soviet union.
2) China is not trying to poison us, they have too much to lose in economic trade if they did.
3) Turkey would not last a week if they even considered a war with us.
4) Who cares if Iran gets the bomb, they will target Israel, which will retaliate with their nukes, catching our troops in Iran in the Fallout clouds, and of course the people of Iraq will also be irradiated.
5)The attack on Israel will give Bush the reason to fire nukes at Iran.
6) Putan will attempt to use the nukes left over from the Soviet days, which are most likely going to explode in the silos, please remember, Russia has not had the money to spare to keep up their nuclear weapons, nuclear subs, or nuclear navy..... In other words, Russia will blow itself up.
7) If, one of the Soviet nukes actually launches, they probably havent updated the targeting on them, so they will be aiming at offutt, cheyenne mountain, and even when the Soviets had the things maintained, the admitted that their guidance systems were not the best, so figure at least one or two MIRV's falling short AND since the soviets liked ground bursts, SHOULD one fall short and land in... say, Yellowstone, the resulting seismic shock wave would most likely destabilize the magma chamber under it, triggering a super eruption, i.e. VI8+
8) Now, should all these little things happen, please remember, that if you live outside an urban area that is not a major railroad, industrial, economic or military target, you really have nothing to worry about. everyone switched to clean weapons in the 70's, well those with well established weapon programs anyway, so Russian weapon immediately lethal fallout will be limited to within 50 miles of ground zero, with levels dropping expotentially every 10 miles after that, so about 75-80 miles out, you will be safe.
9) The resulting economic chaos of this will pretty much cause civilization to collapse and the world to run headlong back into the dark ages.
10) 400 years from now, humans will begin to climb the technology ladder again and hopefully be a lot smarter (but I doubt it, humans are a stupid species.)
I say 400 years because the first hundred to two hundred years will be basic hand to mouth survival. During which time a tribal or clan civilization structure will re-emerge.
The next hundred years will be your basic relearning all the science and math that we lost.
The final hundred years will basically be the industrial revolution all over again, with a twist.
Finally, mankind rises from the ashes like a phoenix and promptly begins setting up the same stupid situation that damn near blew em out of existence.
Now, please understand that we are probably a popular sitcom on some alien video based entertainment system, you know, something like "america's funniest videos" or "Outrageous Moments, " and there is a betting pool going on trying to pick the year, week and day we blow ourselves to kingdom come.
Unfortunately, I have not yet discovered how to get in on the action, and they probably wouldnt let me bet anyway since I would have insider information.
