Judgement day 2017

A timeline where more nations acquired nukes and the world eventually ends in a nuclear holocaust.

Timeline
April 25, 1970: Assassination attempt against Chiang Ching Kuo, who is the son of Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai Shek, is successful. Point of divergence.

1974: India tested its first nuke.

1975: Chiang Kai Shek dies. He Yingqin became the new Taiwanese leader who accelerates their nuclear program afterwards.

1976: USA did not force Taiwan to dismantle its nuclear program.

1979: The Iranian revolution erupts and the Soviet embassy was stormed and its staffs taken hostage.

1980: USSR entices and aids Iraq to invade Iran, starting the Iran-Iraq war.

1981: The Osirak reactor is not destroyed by Israel due to the presences of Soviet anti aircraft batteries and fighter groups over there.

1982: More Soviet technicians arrives at Iraq to help with their nuclear program.

1984: Iran-Iraq war ends with the cession of Ahwazi areas to Iraq.

1985: Taiwan exploded its first nuke, causing much consternation in China.

1987: Chiang Wei Kuo, an adoptive son of Kai Shek's, ascends to power. He started democratic reforms in Taiwan.

1989: Iraq exploded its first nuke at its desert. Tiananmen protests is suppressed with violence in China.

1990: Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iran started its nuclear weapons project afterwards.

1991: USSR becomes obsolete.

1993: Iraqi Babylon space gun is operational.

1995: Iraq launched their first satellites Al-Ta’ir 1 and 2 into space.

1996: Lee Teng Hui became the first elected leader in Taiwan.

1998: Pakistan tested its first nuke.

2000: Chen Shui Bian is elected President of Taiwan.

2001: Iraq sents its first man into space in a Tammouz 3 rocket. Iran test-bomb their first nuke.

2004: Libya tested its 1st nuke too.

2006: North Korea tests its first atomic bomb.

2008: Barack Obama won US presidential race. Ma-ying-jeou is elected as Taiwan leader.

2012: North Korea sent its first satellite into orbit.

2013: Saudi Arabia acquires nukes with help from Pakistan.

2014: Russia invades Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

2016: Donald Trump won US presidential race. Tsai Ing Wen is elected as first female Taiwanese president. Saudi Arabia executes Nimr Al Nimr, setting the clock to midnight into motion. South Korea and Japan starts to transform from a para-nuclear state into a true one owing to increased threats from North Korea.

2017: Saudi and its allies severed relations with Qatar. Later on, an equipment malfunction within Saudi's early warning system forced it to launch nukes into Iran and Iraq, which then retaliated. The Indo-Pakistan cold conflict turns hot and the two nuke each other too. Russia under President Putin and Gaddafi's Libya launched nukes into Europe and America to avenge its Iraqi allies, but he met a response of its kind from the Western world. North Korea nuked Japan and South Korea who then responded. Taiwan and China perished from each other as well. The whole world ended with a nuclear madness.