TS has already HTF...what if we get similar again?

[bigpaul]

it would probably only take about 3 missiles to bracket the whole of the UK, once you take out the main cities the rest wont matter much.
if one is outside the main target area, the explosion and blast zone, what then becomes of the fallout and the radiation?
I have seen estimates anything from 1 to 4 years for the fallout cloud to dissipate but it would not be static it would move about depending on wind and climate conditions.
of course it wont just be the UK, once a launch has been detected every other nuclear nation will send up its missiles too, the result will be a dead planet Earth and an end to ALL life on the planet not just human.
the question therefore is, are the Russians that stupid, they may be fanatical, but are they that stupid? I'm not so sure.