President Putin made it explicitly clear how fast things would take place, if Russia was attacked. His precise quote was:
"An aggressor should know that vengeance is inevitable, that he will be annihilated, and we would be the victims of the aggression. We will go to heaven as martyrs, and they will just drop dead. They will not even have time to repent for this," he said.
That being said, incineration and all, Jack Posobiec lays it all out up to the minute, or NOW . . .
A term from the Cold War. MAD = Mutually Assured Destruction