Ah Threads...
Scared the hell out of us in the eighties, that and the public information films that used to crop up every now and again.
I read somewhere that this film plus the merkin's The Day After helped a few of the governments realise what a seriously bad idea having hundreds of nuclear weapons hanging around. And made them more inclined to reduce numbers during various talks with the other side.
(, Fri 12 Apr 2013, 10:11, Reply)
I did watch the "Day After" last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2B7sdLPMfc
Yes it was a shock at the time, and pretty roundly condemned by the govt. at the time as "scaremongering" I think.
It was a special kind of madness, incredibly expensive weapons which couldn't ever be used, the development of the neutron bomb was heralded as a great advance, it has the same rad yield, but doesn't do so much destruction. So buildings would be left standing... totally irradiated but in perfect condition - Hurrah!
(, Fri 12 Apr 2013, 14:42, Reply)
Don't worry, you'll all be dead
We had a teacher who told us to watch this when it was first shown, we then had a discussion about it afterwards.
She advised us not to worry about surviving a nuclear war because we lived close to Liverpool airport and in the shadow of Fiddlers Ferry power station we would be one of the first to go. Her actual quote was "Don't worry, you'll all be dead" ..... class was a bit sombre after that.
(, Sun 14 Apr 2013, 15:34, Reply)