@bl0xta - Slight error in your comment from September about Australia and (one assumes) the "Mad Max" films. Only the third film (Thunderdome) mentions nuclear war. In "Mad Max", there was simply a breakdown of lawful society to a certain degree. In "The Road Warrior", the situation was caused by the end of easily available fuel oil, not any war. Therefore, the Mad Max series is a good example of constant ret-conning or changes to official history.
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A small portion of humanity would survive and go on. Rev 19&20. The millennial period. But no Rapture. Everybody's going to be here, and be dead or be surviving.
I was born in 1991, so basically the year the USSR collapsed, so I never knew a Cold War world. It seems so incredible to me that the prospects of nuclear war were so high at one time and society felt like it was on the edge of oblivion.
Threads was shown on British Tv. I saw it. It was exported and a very good theory has it that Mikael Gorbatrov saw it and it reinforced his will to bring the USSR to the Nuclear Arms reduction table.
@idle44 Not sure about Threads, but I saw The Day After on Soviet TV in 1986 (I was a child) and that was a shock for me. Adults were amazed: the Americans understood the danger, too - judging by the news programs, papers and polititians' speeches the West was ready to start a war and hoped to destroy us and benefit from it.
As for my home country, everyone knew that in the actual war there would be no winner. Gorbachev did too, and an end to the arms race was his declared goal from the start.
@Professor6871 Thanks, just remember watching it in the 70's. Been looking for it for some time on and off and this sort of reminded me that I haven't found it yet LOL.
@classicrockforever66 Yes that sounds about right, black and white from the mid 60's and as Professor6871 said, I believe it was not allowed to be shown in England when it came out, got a name and a title now so thinks folks.
The army would have been on the streets in armoured personell carriers and tanks preventing people from going outdoors. It would have been a total lockdown.
Britain, this film tells about the past, you can quit yourself of fear (if there is any); as things go now Russia will never launch a nuclear strike on the UK as families, folks, moneys and belongings of Russian senior officials are in London.
There's an entire plot of the before and aftermath of the bomb. It was only shown once to the public and families were urged to watch it with their children and to discuss their plans in the event of something so cataclysmic. Because of the nationwide shock after viewing the film, they took it off air and didn't show it for years afterwards. Now you can only view it online (google video) or buy VHS/DVDs. I watched it in my World History class, fresh
Asteroids cross the earth's orbit every day, there are two or three near misses every week. If one did hit earth it would probably wipe out civilization as happened with the dinosaurs. Point is, everyone will die.
what amazes me is that both the yanks and brits make a very harsh realistic film about the effects of nuclear war...the aussies???...well there answer to surviving in a post apocaliptic world is to drive around the countryside on motorbikes in full leather clad bondage gear with an ex-brutalised cop in pursuit, oh and not forgetting some fuckwit in a gyro copter!
@bl0xta remember aussie land is a island, cut off from the world exept by planes an boats. if the rest of the world went to nuclear hell australia would be isolated and cut off. and well.. devolve. In the first madmax movie the very first, . civillization on the island had not yet gone to shit there where still some pockets of civillized life..
@TheCriton Hey I agree, the MadMax series of films were an iconic masterpiece on the whole and rumour has it there is a fourth coming out either next year or in 2014 but I doubt Mel Gibson will reprise the roll.
@bl0xta I don't think this was shown on UK tv until after the cold war ended. We were getting shown shit propaganda. duck and cover my arse. Mad max was probably closer to the truth.
1:28 "Iran Crisis Latest" Is anyone else crept out by the fact that, if they make an updated version of this, they could still use use the same headline?
This video looks about 30 years old, that's around the time the revolution happened in Iran and a few years after that Iraq attacked Iran, those would be the crisis not the stuff happening in Iran today that are related to Nuclear Energy or weaponry :P
@fgdsjj I'm saying that with revolution brewing in Iran, its theocratic regime trying to acquire nuclear weapons and the very real possibility of Israel air raiding the Iranian uranium facilities, for the producers to use the headline "Iran Crisis Latest" as a prop in a remake would be uncomfortably close to the truth even 30 years later.
i wonder if we would have really have gotten a four minute warning, cant see what good it would have done for people in london. think if i was about to be atomised, id rather not have an additional four minutes of messing my pants though. if aliens came along centuries later they would think it was a bomb that caused mass fatal flatulent diarreah
@bl0xta god damn i wish, everyone could eat cheap, and not that fish and chips and bloody pudding, and that other AWFUL shit you eurofags eat...jesus christ
@DaytonaRoadster Aaah yes but whats better.....being served fresh fish and chips (which is not that cheap these days) or a cardboard subway roll from a smiley faced spotty little oik who's only vocabulary in life is "have a good day sir!" or "would you like fries with that?"
I hate those sirens. im only 28 but they give me heebi jeebies everytime i hear them. i keep thinking bombs will drop on us and nuclear war heads explosions will heard and fearfully seen in the distance. Yet funny thing is tho.. I got this werid feeling that they will be heard all over the world soon. Am i crazy to think this?
@FsimulatorX Im in the UK mind. I've had a dream that those sirens went off all over britain and it was around 2003 when i had it. it haunted me ever since.
@RebelResistance2011 6 months ago here in the US I can here a faint sound of the WWII Air Raid alert sounds (once used in Britian) Mixed with the alarm heard in this movie. It continued on for another 5 or 8 days
I guess Britain was where the biggest danger was . In America , satellites would pick up the missiles 12-15 minutes from impact and warnings could be broadcast all over America and we would have a decent chance of getting to a bomb shelter in time . Britain , however , would have been hit only 3-5 minutes after the missile's left bases in East Germany and Russia .
it proves that even if you're not killed in the blasted, you're pretty much fucked anyway. If this was to happen, I personally would get as close to the blast zone as possible and kiss my ass goodbye - rather a quick vapourization then a slow painful death from radiation poisoning!
That's defeatism. There MUST be a way to survive everything a nuclear war could throw at you. There MUST be a way for Humanity to prevail through its own stupidity. I for one will save suicide for when we run out of alternatives.
@TheVoiceOfReason93 Humanity cant prevail as long as people disagree, sometimes it seems best to simply kill yourself and convince others to be the end of humanity. It will just make the same mistake again. Although Nuclear War is less unlikely now in days, the bigger threat is disease. Being afraid of weapons isnt what we should be doing. At the same time, i can see wanting to preserve Humanity for the sake of it. Although living in a basement for 20 years seems rather useless.
@TheVoiceOfReason93 thier is, a next gen cyber-warfare strike could keep the satalite defences clear, and covert special forces squads HALO dropped to the tracking stations could delay a retalliation by up to 7 minutes when conbined, with a 5 minute prep and 1 minute launch that leaves from 30secs to 2 mins of "free time" now if we take into account the previous false alarms when systems have gone haywire,the operator MAY make the mistake of thinking its a false alarm.Endgame
@TheVoiceOfReason93 evolution..... , most modern scientists saw the H-bomb as man's finality when it came to destruction . It's a depressing thought, but we're fucking lucking as a post 80s generation
I remember Threads terrifying me as a child, I can't decide what scared me more, the threat of a slow death from radiation poisoning or the fear of armed traffic wardens.
I first saw this in 1985 when I was 14 years old. It's safe to say, frankly, that I was traumatised by it for years. I know it might seem likejust another movie to people nowadays, and I understand that - young people didn't have to live through the corroding fear of imminent nuclear war. But back then, it was totally possible and truly terrifying. I remember obsessing about how I would save my family if it happened. Mind you, we were 30 miles from London then, so we were dead anyway.
@ludocrat - I was also 14 in 1985 and was horrified. All we had before it in the States was "The Day After" and that was like watching a Disney film in comparison. If they had broadcast anything like Protect & Survive in the US at that time, it would have sent me over the edge.
Then in 2003 at age 32, I happened to catch it again, thinking it would be as silly as The Day After 20 years later. And I was horrified all over again. Holy f***ing sh*t
Trauma never leaves you. This was pure exisetential (serious) psychological trauma for our age group. No one else understands that - which makes us kind of related (culturally).
@ludocrat I know I was 16 and there was so much mind numbing fear then on the TV and the media in general, about the real threat nuclear war. The 4 minute warning was utterly terrifying for us kids in 80s as it was for kids in the 50s and 60s 70s. The young generation thankfully haven't got that kind of worry because the cold war ended in 1989. But even so after 9/11 the world is still not safe place from nuclear weapons. Sadly there use now is more likely than it was back in the 80s
I'm quite glad I wasn't alone in my obsession - but's that's what it was: an obsession reinforced in orders of magnitude by this genius docudrama. But it was my secret anxiety that I never shared with anyone then (I was too young to analyse it out of my system). To my shame this apocalyptic solipsistic survival fantasy - and saving my loved ones (hero me!) - almost became a sort of nihilist fetish. Almost. But that probably explains why I come back here time after time: trauma.
@ludocrat "But back then, it was totally possible" - actualy, not realy mate.
there is no $ in nuclear war, ERGO it's not worth to be waged.
sure, some psycho could started but, for example NO single US president in last 80 years at least
has been elected randomly. they (leaders) are SELECTED by a few powerful men and then 'elected' by ignorant masses in, what we call, 'democratic' election.
cold war was a hoax,
couse if you want to have a society you need a picture of enemy.
Well, there were three near-miss accidental launches in that period that even I know of, so that kind of blows your thesis out of water somewhat, doesn't it? So to speak. The scenario in this movie might be unlikely, but nuclear war generally most certainly was not. Besides, that doesn't alter the way people felt. Guess you had to be there or, if you were, not stoned (which you must have been - it sounds like you still are).
I agree with you completely. Mit der hindsight I think the deterrent defintely worked as a policy. But I also know that at the time, nuclear oblivion felt totally real, with no escape, and that the fail safes weren't actually as safe as we were told. It was a hell of thing to grow up with, and these movies hardly helped!
Nowadays I think these weapons represent a sort of human coming of age. We can destroy whole planets, and that kind of power is a heck of a responsibility!
@WolfytheWolf5667 The USSR never wanted war, global domination yes, but not war. I have have a friend of a friend of a friend who worked as a liason officer with the Russians back then, somebody they trusted completely and I have it on good authority that they didn't want a war and that they knew a land campaign in Europe would grind to a halt ahead of its supply lines & then there would be a nuclear war. 20 million dead in WW2 taught them what war really is.
@WolfytheWolf5667 if there was a land war, russia would lose very quickly and very badly these days. their army is still equipped with stuff from the 60s and 70s. a single french, german or british tank could run rings around a whole batallion of russian tanks.
@ludocrat i totally hear you my english brother,this movie scared the crap out of me and i was younger than you.i can remember my dad and his friend talking about actually buying a scool bus and burrying it in this field to use as a bunker incase this actually happened in canada.and yes,it was something that could have happened too,alot of people were truly afraid at the time.im not religeous,but seeing this is still enough to make me think god help us all if this were to ever happen.
@ludocrat Yes it made me crap my pants too in 1985 and is still so chilling to watch. We were about 10 miles from central London, on the brow of a hill about 300 ft above sea level. We were dead meat..... Watch 'A Guide to Armageddon QED' the vo is by the late great Ludovic Kennedy. That made me crap myself too back in 1982 when I was 14.
@ludocrat i was 14 and from ireland...i didn't know what nuclear war meant aside from the big flash and mushroom clouds....after this terror and the IRA AND nowadays the taliban al queda..we survive terror..but a part of us dies in the fear.
It'd be nice if you were right, but just one 1MT nuclear warhead airbursting over central London would level everything within three miles from the hypocentre, killing millions instantly. There'd be severe blast damage over 9 miles away and the radioactive fallout would render most of the countryside downwind uninhabitable for months. That's one megaton. 400MT were aimed at the UK by the USSR. If anything, the scale of the catastrophe depicted in 'Threads' is an underestimate.
Do yourselves a favour: do NOT watch the entire documentary. If you really have to, DO NOT sroll down and look at the thumbnails for the next parts in the "Suggestions" section on the right especially for anything after PART 5. Seriously, you know how Youtube has a habit of picking the best frame for a thumbnail for any situation, and it picks the NASTIEST BITS. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
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I live within 10 miles of a military,industrial,and population target. Growing up during the cold war, I knew I would not feel any pain. Just a millisecond of extreme heat.
@knightryderrwn .. Soviet Russia had a no strike first policy for the entire cold war, it was always NATO and the US that always maintained the "integrity of a pre-emptive strike". The only time Russia came close to launching was during the 1980's during able archer following the deployment of the US missiles in Germany and the ability to hit Russian targets within 8 minutes, but Russia did not launch because no Nato launch was detected and only 50% of the inelegance needed for "Ryan" came in.
@kilmjaa The USSR would have thrown both chemical and biological weapons into what was then West Germany, if they had invaded it. These weapons are weapons of mass destruction just like nukes are. VX nerve gas would of been a dooms day weapon that the Soviets had plenty of it and were prepared to use it. For gad sack they put genitically engineered smallpox on their missiles so that they could insure themselves of an outright victory in nuclear war.
@kilmjaa Actually, your statement that the Soviets have no first strike policy during the Cold War is untrue. They had a first use policy and continue to have a first use policy for tactical nuclear weapons today. In fact, Russia has stated that they reserve the right to a nuclear first strike even in a conventional war.
Gamma rays can not kill you. They can only turn lead into dust. But at high levels, it turns YOU into dust. Atomic dust to be scientific and all but you don't care..
this was made in the 80s yet when the nurse comes out of the shop the newspaper holder printed was (iran crisis lastest)..hummmm
kirsty34 4 days ago
oppsessed in the 1980s they were
rpeterhart 6 days ago
Why are we so blind, declaring a nuclear war is like sentencing ourselves to death, were drowning ourselves in stupidity.
Jigggie 1 week ago
A nuclear attack on Sheffield....
I don't get what the problem is. :/
TheWhiteDevil1612 1 week ago
@bl0xta - Slight error in your comment from September about Australia and (one assumes) the "Mad Max" films. Only the third film (Thunderdome) mentions nuclear war. In "Mad Max", there was simply a breakdown of lawful society to a certain degree. In "The Road Warrior", the situation was caused by the end of easily available fuel oil, not any war. Therefore, the Mad Max series is a good example of constant ret-conning or changes to official history.
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TheDeadlyAssailant 3 weeks ago
you wish nuclear was was this lame.
cirosuperiore 3 weeks ago
wankers
Steviemtothec 1 month ago
when was this made and when was it shown on TV?
sexypotterhead 1 month ago
@sexypotterhead In 1984, and shown in September that year on BBC2 in Britain and RTE2 in Ireland.
It was repeated in July 1985 on BBC1 as well, but not since to my knowledge.
Threads was a very scary film set in Sheffield, and is still very creepy today I can tell you!
brucedanton 3 weeks ago
The reality is the USSR had no need to use nuclear weapons in europe unless the USA launched first
Hood197950 1 month ago
I saw this once, as a teenager, it scared the crap out of me!! have been a pacifist ever since!
petalrs 1 month ago in playlist More videos from Zappiss 2
@petalrs same here
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So .. like ... everything electric is dead but the jets are still working?
hallabalooza 1 month ago
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hallabalooza 1 month ago
thermal flash, blast wave and fallout.
stumer56 1 month ago
who saw the paper sign at 1:32 about iran crisis... bear in mind this is in 70's/ 80's?
l0dgey 1 month ago
Time to get out my pip-boy.
mdhookey 1 month ago 2
I love how it looks like a wind storm. With the pressure created by the explosion it would crush everything under the blast zone.
spankytclown 1 month ago
6:40 'What about t'tellies' lol! Saw this when it was aired on BBC many years ago.. Scary stuff...
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Makaveli175 2 months ago
A small portion of humanity would survive and go on. Rev 19&20. The millennial period. But no Rapture. Everybody's going to be here, and be dead or be surviving.
dreadway3 2 months ago
lol @7:20
comradeshow 2 months ago
narrator sounds like John Cleese
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I was born in 1991, so basically the year the USSR collapsed, so I never knew a Cold War world. It seems so incredible to me that the prospects of nuclear war were so high at one time and society felt like it was on the edge of oblivion.
ChaosDynamics 3 months ago
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ChaosDynamics 3 months ago
Threads was shown on British Tv. I saw it. It was exported and a very good theory has it that Mikael Gorbatrov saw it and it reinforced his will to bring the USSR to the Nuclear Arms reduction table.
idle44 3 months ago
@idle44 Not sure about Threads, but I saw The Day After on Soviet TV in 1986 (I was a child) and that was a shock for me. Adults were amazed: the Americans understood the danger, too - judging by the news programs, papers and polititians' speeches the West was ready to start a war and hoped to destroy us and benefit from it.
As for my home country, everyone knew that in the actual war there would be no winner. Gorbachev did too, and an end to the arms race was his declared goal from the start.
aleclitvinov 2 months ago
@aleclitvinov Where are you living now?
ProjectCarlisle 2 months ago
@ProjectCarlisle Ryazan, Russia
aleclitvinov 2 months ago
@aleclitvinov Where are you living now? gotta go...times up. Will ck. bk. sjc, Denver, Co.
ProjectCarlisle 2 months ago
Dose anyone here know where the man with the beard who's trying to buy wood @5:50 gets his hair cut? I'm desperate to get mine done like that.
5thcenturyad 3 months ago
i was 14 when i saw this movie, it was very terrifying .... correction : it seems to be still terrifying.
MrCircle4you 3 months ago
DaytoneRoadster How about Margate get removed... and nothing of value was lost?
Professor6871 3 months ago
Reminds me a bit of a doc. that was made in the early 60's about a what if sort of thing if there was a nuclear war and En was ghin the crossfire.
candr 3 months ago
@candr That was Peter Jackson's docu drama the War Game that the BBC banned it from being televisied for 20 years.
Professor6871 3 months ago
@Professor6871 Thanks, just remember watching it in the 70's. Been looking for it for some time on and off and this sort of reminded me that I haven't found it yet LOL.
candr 3 months ago
@candr the war game in 1965. is that what u mean?
classicrockforever66 3 months ago
@classicrockforever66 Yes that sounds about right, black and white from the mid 60's and as Professor6871 said, I believe it was not allowed to be shown in England when it came out, got a name and a title now so thinks folks.
candr 3 months ago
@candr thats right. its on youtube. i watched it yesterday. its not suprising it was not shown in britain, cos it is scary as hell
classicrockforever66 3 months ago
@classicrockforever66
It was shown once in the UK, and once only. It's now a very sort after film.
djzee1000 2 months ago
The army would have been on the streets in armoured personell carriers and tanks preventing people from going outdoors. It would have been a total lockdown.
Enquiringmind777 3 months ago
look for and buy a film called threads guys! very scary trust in me
british123able 3 months ago
Britain, this film tells about the past, you can quit yourself of fear (if there is any); as things go now Russia will never launch a nuclear strike on the UK as families, folks, moneys and belongings of Russian senior officials are in London.
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This is from the BBC film titled "Threads".
There's an entire plot of the before and aftermath of the bomb. It was only shown once to the public and families were urged to watch it with their children and to discuss their plans in the event of something so cataclysmic. Because of the nationwide shock after viewing the film, they took it off air and didn't show it for years afterwards. Now you can only view it online (google video) or buy VHS/DVDs. I watched it in my World History class, fresh
cocolizcoco 4 months ago
Asteroids cross the earth's orbit every day, there are two or three near misses every week. If one did hit earth it would probably wipe out civilization as happened with the dinosaurs. Point is, everyone will die.
kabdulla9 4 months ago
pelas barbas do profeta
joel02ist 4 months ago
que falta de criatividade
joel02ist 4 months ago
7:06 comic relief "ill just go to the toilet during the 3 minute warning"
courtney359 4 months ago
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody want to die.
MrOneBlackMan 4 months ago
what amazes me is that both the yanks and brits make a very harsh realistic film about the effects of nuclear war...the aussies???...well there answer to surviving in a post apocaliptic world is to drive around the countryside on motorbikes in full leather clad bondage gear with an ex-brutalised cop in pursuit, oh and not forgetting some fuckwit in a gyro copter!
bl0xta 5 months ago 40
@bl0xta remember aussie land is a island, cut off from the world exept by planes an boats. if the rest of the world went to nuclear hell australia would be isolated and cut off. and well.. devolve. In the first madmax movie the very first, . civillization on the island had not yet gone to shit there where still some pockets of civillized life..
kurlobe 4 months ago
@bl0xta hahaha!!!!
Danny77uk 2 months ago
@bl0xta Did you ever see the movie 'On the Beach'? Post apocolyptic Australia. However, I love your elusion to the Mad Max series!
RELeeOnTraveller 2 months ago
@bl0xta You say that like its a bad thing
Richiepookinshoo 4 weeks ago
@bl0xta hey at least it made a good film. Mad max was my favorite
TheCriton 3 weeks ago
@TheCriton Hey I agree, the MadMax series of films were an iconic masterpiece on the whole and rumour has it there is a fourth coming out either next year or in 2014 but I doubt Mel Gibson will reprise the roll.
bl0xta 3 weeks ago
@bl0xta
And yet...the Aussie version of nuclear apocalypse is inifitely preferable.
ownedhome 2 weeks ago
@ownedhome I suppose everything down under will be barbequed at some point.
Brecconable 2 weeks ago
@bl0xta I don't think this was shown on UK tv until after the cold war ended. We were getting shown shit propaganda. duck and cover my arse. Mad max was probably closer to the truth.
watch "When The Wind Blows"
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gssg9 4 days ago
@gssg9 Sorry it was shown twice in the 80s.
gssg9 4 days ago
Keep suckin' arab's dicks and this WILL become reality british idiots.
Cheburashka207 5 months ago
@Cheburashka207 are you american? i'm british, rescue me from this cesspit of a country
CallumRitchie96 5 months ago
@CallumRitchie96
I'm from Israel.Fuck u britich cock sucker.
Cheburashka207 5 months ago
@Cheburashka207 Sorry, I don't speak DIRTY
CallumRitchie96 5 months ago
@CallumRitchie96 You're not British.
Lets have one your creative answers then.
Zero7evenX 4 months ago
@Zero7evenX Um, Fuck you? :D
CallumRitchie96 4 months ago
Haven't heard that much bloody screaming since The Beatles!
Could've done without seeing the woman wet herself and the man on the toilet.
At 6:00---the bloody merchandise is now FREE!
ideniseb 5 months ago
I have a copy of the nuclear safety video at the beginning of this, it's so creepy
ChrisDonaldsonVideos 5 months ago
no you wouldnt : P
unless you were outside and/ or in the midst of some optimum radiation field pattern.
theres a german movie called when the bomb falls im dead anyway which
deals with this guarantee mis-conception.
also often vanishing persons are shown in more modern productions like
the 05 bbc zdf documentary.
but to leave a shadow you dont necessarily have to vanish you simply
shield the environment from direct rays/ light in that moment.
look for nuclear effects calculator!
qbrikc 5 months ago
this is so fake if a nuce went off everyone in the area wud be dead and everything wud be destroyed the people who made this ard dumb and stupid
icettea1 6 months ago
1:28 "Iran Crisis Latest" Is anyone else crept out by the fact that, if they make an updated version of this, they could still use use the same headline?
TomFynn 6 months ago
@TomFynn
This video looks about 30 years old, that's around the time the revolution happened in Iran and a few years after that Iraq attacked Iran, those would be the crisis not the stuff happening in Iran today that are related to Nuclear Energy or weaponry :P
fgdsjj 6 months ago
@fgdsjj I know. And they would not be justified in using the same headline in a remake how?
TomFynn 6 months ago
@TomFynn
I don't get what you're saying, are you saying an updated version of this would show Iran starting a Nuclear war or something similar?
fgdsjj 6 months ago
@fgdsjj I'm saying that with revolution brewing in Iran, its theocratic regime trying to acquire nuclear weapons and the very real possibility of Israel air raiding the Iranian uranium facilities, for the producers to use the headline "Iran Crisis Latest" as a prop in a remake would be uncomfortably close to the truth even 30 years later.
TomFynn 6 months ago
@TomFynn
Yeah if that would happen they could use the same headline
fgdsjj 6 months ago
Start stocking up on food people
nemzz9st 6 months ago
Nuclear Holocaust what-ifs always give me the weirdest boner.
Rereversed 6 months ago
Threads Part 1: "Oh, we can make it through this, we made it through the War, keep calm and carry on."
Threads Part 2: "Well, we're fucked."
hotelmario510 6 months ago
i wonder if we would have really have gotten a four minute warning, cant see what good it would have done for people in london. think if i was about to be atomised, id rather not have an additional four minutes of messing my pants though. if aliens came along centuries later they would think it was a bomb that caused mass fatal flatulent diarreah
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LAAngels2009 7 months ago
England gets removed from the earth....and nothing of value was lost
DaytonaRoadster 7 months ago
@DaytonaRoadster
What an inhumane thing to say.
pretzelberg 7 months ago
@pretzelberg u mad
DaytonaRoadster 7 months ago
@DaytonaRoadster well if it was america then the world would be well and truly stuffed for fast food joints!
bl0xta 6 months ago
@bl0xta god damn i wish, everyone could eat cheap, and not that fish and chips and bloody pudding, and that other AWFUL shit you eurofags eat...jesus christ
DaytonaRoadster 6 months ago
@DaytonaRoadster Aaah yes but whats better.....being served fresh fish and chips (which is not that cheap these days) or a cardboard subway roll from a smiley faced spotty little oik who's only vocabulary in life is "have a good day sir!" or "would you like fries with that?"
bl0xta 6 months ago
Jesus Christ.
FSAFlights 7 months ago
I hate those sirens. im only 28 but they give me heebi jeebies everytime i hear them. i keep thinking bombs will drop on us and nuclear war heads explosions will heard and fearfully seen in the distance. Yet funny thing is tho.. I got this werid feeling that they will be heard all over the world soon. Am i crazy to think this?
RebelResistance2011 7 months ago
@RebelResistance2011 The alarm will come to Iran from Israle Airforce
FsimulatorX 7 months ago
@FsimulatorX Im in the UK mind. I've had a dream that those sirens went off all over britain and it was around 2003 when i had it. it haunted me ever since.
RebelResistance2011 7 months ago
@RebelResistance2011 6 months ago here in the US I can here a faint sound of the WWII Air Raid alert sounds (once used in Britian) Mixed with the alarm heard in this movie. It continued on for another 5 or 8 days
FsimulatorX 7 months ago
@FsimulatorX Makes you wonder when it will all start up again. but worse this time. :(
RebelResistance2011 7 months ago
Britains version of the day after...
Cloberzz39 7 months ago
I guess Britain was where the biggest danger was . In America , satellites would pick up the missiles 12-15 minutes from impact and warnings could be broadcast all over America and we would have a decent chance of getting to a bomb shelter in time . Britain , however , would have been hit only 3-5 minutes after the missile's left bases in East Germany and Russia .
imthatoneguy16 7 months ago
Protect and survive announcements, what a load of bollox. I can see how corny they are now, but it was like real then.
gaff69 8 months ago
it proves that even if you're not killed in the blasted, you're pretty much fucked anyway. If this was to happen, I personally would get as close to the blast zone as possible and kiss my ass goodbye - rather a quick vapourization then a slow painful death from radiation poisoning!
TheKezzabean 8 months ago 5
@TheKezzabean
That's defeatism. There MUST be a way to survive everything a nuclear war could throw at you. There MUST be a way for Humanity to prevail through its own stupidity. I for one will save suicide for when we run out of alternatives.
TheVoiceOfReason93 3 months ago 7
@TheVoiceOfReason93 Humanity cant prevail as long as people disagree, sometimes it seems best to simply kill yourself and convince others to be the end of humanity. It will just make the same mistake again. Although Nuclear War is less unlikely now in days, the bigger threat is disease. Being afraid of weapons isnt what we should be doing. At the same time, i can see wanting to preserve Humanity for the sake of it. Although living in a basement for 20 years seems rather useless.
DarPower1 2 months ago
@TheVoiceOfReason93 why would you even want to? What would be left?
themuffinman12345 2 months ago
@TheVoiceOfReason93 Oh yes...very reasonable. Im sure some very small % would survive.
ItaloGallese 1 month ago
@TheVoiceOfReason93 thier is, a next gen cyber-warfare strike could keep the satalite defences clear, and covert special forces squads HALO dropped to the tracking stations could delay a retalliation by up to 7 minutes when conbined, with a 5 minute prep and 1 minute launch that leaves from 30secs to 2 mins of "free time" now if we take into account the previous false alarms when systems have gone haywire,the operator MAY make the mistake of thinking its a false alarm.Endgame
Jackrhion 4 weeks ago
@TheVoiceOfReason93 Trouble is the buggers who dropped the bomb in the first place have nice cosy nuclear bunkers to save them..
As per usual it's the ordinary folk like you and me that die!
Drobium77 3 weeks ago
@TheVoiceOfReason93 evolution..... , most modern scientists saw the H-bomb as man's finality when it came to destruction . It's a depressing thought, but we're fucking lucking as a post 80s generation
RalphMarx 1 week ago
@TheVoiceOfReason93 fallout man the video game
Squashylemon 1 week ago
Limited nuclear war in Europe USA and USSR saw as possible variant
oncelostmain 8 months ago
lol at the guy taking a dump
Thunderbolt505T 8 months ago
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asubjectiveopinion 8 months ago
@asubjectiveopinion Petrov, 1983
MrRik2 8 months ago
I remember Threads terrifying me as a child, I can't decide what scared me more, the threat of a slow death from radiation poisoning or the fear of armed traffic wardens.
asubjectiveopinion 8 months ago
I think the thing that makes this movie even more realistic is the lack of music, really eerie without music!
calumpat9 8 months ago
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Threads is the best modern warfare movie I've ever seen. Very realistic.
vvsignin1 9 months ago
didn't know British made movie... except ThunderBirds
RiseofBane 10 months ago
@RiseofBane
Are you kidding me?
CynicalVision 10 months ago
@CynicalVision no im not. R u British?
RiseofBane 10 months ago
@RiseofBane
Of course!
CynicalVision 10 months ago
@RiseofBane ever heard of james bond atleast??
rawdenashitey 8 months ago
@rawdenashitey isn't that American movie . and American actor? if ur being sarcastic fuk off
RiseofBane 8 months ago
I think they made a mistake in the captions - at 8:36 there's a caption reading "brown burst." That should be "ground burst," right?
Lotmeister 10 months ago 12
@Lotmeister yes it should, unless someone had a brown burst in their pants. :)
Zappiss 10 months ago 43
@Zappiss I Would
SnappyPenguin566 9 months ago
@Zappiss that is what the nuce in this was...a guy at mcdonalds cudent hold it in XD
icettea1 6 months ago
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jmitterii2 5 months ago
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@Zappiss @Zappiss Well at 7:18 you could call it a yellow trickle. ;)~
jmitterii2 5 months ago
@Zappiss Like that woman had that yellow stream running down her pants...
Gemini061882 3 months ago
@Lotmeister Well, it is Britain, so maybe they had their own word for that.
supercj12 8 months ago
@Lotmeister actually , I think they were referring to the nuclear weapon being used against electrical circuits .
imthatoneguy16 7 months ago
Wtf why somone whant nucler war they will destroy all earth with that
why somone need nuclear we can all die they will destroy a enemy and themself
Hawix1000 10 months ago
Scarry hope it never happens
maocat0252 10 months ago
OBEY
JonnyLikesPie 10 months ago
all world leaders are mad.
210482fmj 10 months ago
Any excuse get off school even during a nuclear war.
Professor6871 11 months ago
Nothing like having a good shit ruined by a nuke.
hotdog2020 11 months ago
I first saw this in 1985 when I was 14 years old. It's safe to say, frankly, that I was traumatised by it for years. I know it might seem likejust another movie to people nowadays, and I understand that - young people didn't have to live through the corroding fear of imminent nuclear war. But back then, it was totally possible and truly terrifying. I remember obsessing about how I would save my family if it happened. Mind you, we were 30 miles from London then, so we were dead anyway.
ludocrat 11 months ago 34
@ludocrat - I was also 14 in 1985 and was horrified. All we had before it in the States was "The Day After" and that was like watching a Disney film in comparison. If they had broadcast anything like Protect & Survive in the US at that time, it would have sent me over the edge.
Then in 2003 at age 32, I happened to catch it again, thinking it would be as silly as The Day After 20 years later. And I was horrified all over again. Holy f***ing sh*t
giantsean 11 months ago
@giantsean
Trauma never leaves you. This was pure exisetential (serious) psychological trauma for our age group. No one else understands that - which makes us kind of related (culturally).
So, solidarity in our second chance, brother!
We made it :)
ludocrat 10 months ago
@ludocrat I know I was 16 and there was so much mind numbing fear then on the TV and the media in general, about the real threat nuclear war. The 4 minute warning was utterly terrifying for us kids in 80s as it was for kids in the 50s and 60s 70s. The young generation thankfully haven't got that kind of worry because the cold war ended in 1989. But even so after 9/11 the world is still not safe place from nuclear weapons. Sadly there use now is more likely than it was back in the 80s
Professor6871 10 months ago
@Professor6871
I'm quite glad I wasn't alone in my obsession - but's that's what it was: an obsession reinforced in orders of magnitude by this genius docudrama. But it was my secret anxiety that I never shared with anyone then (I was too young to analyse it out of my system). To my shame this apocalyptic solipsistic survival fantasy - and saving my loved ones (hero me!) - almost became a sort of nihilist fetish. Almost. But that probably explains why I come back here time after time: trauma.
ludocrat 10 months ago
@ludocrat Nuclear war isn't very likely anymore, but nuclear attack is. What with Iraq and North Korea.
Fizzydog77 10 months ago
@Fizzydog77
I agree. How do you feel about that?
ludocrat 10 months ago
@Fizzydog77 Iraq had no WMDS
TheBleachAmv 10 months ago 2
@ludocrat I saw this on Television in 1985 ....
MrAntipattern 10 months ago
@ludocrat "But back then, it was totally possible" - actualy, not realy mate.
there is no $ in nuclear war, ERGO it's not worth to be waged.
sure, some psycho could started but, for example NO single US president in last 80 years at least
has been elected randomly. they (leaders) are SELECTED by a few powerful men and then 'elected' by ignorant masses in, what we call, 'democratic' election.
cold war was a hoax,
couse if you want to have a society you need a picture of enemy.
simple
o/
utar88utar 10 months ago
@utar88utar
Well, there were three near-miss accidental launches in that period that even I know of, so that kind of blows your thesis out of water somewhat, doesn't it? So to speak. The scenario in this movie might be unlikely, but nuclear war generally most certainly was not. Besides, that doesn't alter the way people felt. Guess you had to be there or, if you were, not stoned (which you must have been - it sounds like you still are).
ludocrat 9 months ago
@ludocrat well, we are still here so my thesis is valid, so to speak.
stoned? hehe...
bye
utar88utar 9 months ago
@utar88utar
Lol. Point.
ludocrat 9 months ago
@ludocrat
thank god it didn't.
But this is exactly why the Soviet Union never attacked W.Europe. Because of M.A.D.
Word domintion isn't worth world destruction.
WolfytheWolf5667 9 months ago
@WolfytheWolf5667
I agree with you completely. Mit der hindsight I think the deterrent defintely worked as a policy. But I also know that at the time, nuclear oblivion felt totally real, with no escape, and that the fail safes weren't actually as safe as we were told. It was a hell of thing to grow up with, and these movies hardly helped!
Nowadays I think these weapons represent a sort of human coming of age. We can destroy whole planets, and that kind of power is a heck of a responsibility!
ludocrat 9 months ago
@WolfytheWolf5667 The USSR never wanted war, global domination yes, but not war. I have have a friend of a friend of a friend who worked as a liason officer with the Russians back then, somebody they trusted completely and I have it on good authority that they didn't want a war and that they knew a land campaign in Europe would grind to a halt ahead of its supply lines & then there would be a nuclear war. 20 million dead in WW2 taught them what war really is.
3replybiz 7 months ago
@3replybiz
from what we saw of EU's "superior" forces, their weak.
didn't they supply Georgia? 100s of thousands of troops. Georgia lost.
Moral of the story:
Don't kick the bear. It's claws can reach a long way.
WolfytheWolf5667 7 months ago
@WolfytheWolf5667 if there was a land war, russia would lose very quickly and very badly these days. their army is still equipped with stuff from the 60s and 70s. a single french, german or british tank could run rings around a whole batallion of russian tanks.
hogalog 7 months ago
@ludocrat man same hear but i actually lived in london when i saw the movie and i got so paranoid
arizon1249 9 months ago
@ludocrat i totally hear you my english brother,this movie scared the crap out of me and i was younger than you.i can remember my dad and his friend talking about actually buying a scool bus and burrying it in this field to use as a bunker incase this actually happened in canada.and yes,it was something that could have happened too,alot of people were truly afraid at the time.im not religeous,but seeing this is still enough to make me think god help us all if this were to ever happen.
superbert35 9 months ago
@ludocrat Yes it made me crap my pants too in 1985 and is still so chilling to watch. We were about 10 miles from central London, on the brow of a hill about 300 ft above sea level. We were dead meat..... Watch 'A Guide to Armageddon QED' the vo is by the late great Ludovic Kennedy. That made me crap myself too back in 1982 when I was 14.
3replybiz 7 months ago
@ludocrat i was 14 and from ireland...i didn't know what nuclear war meant aside from the big flash and mushroom clouds....after this terror and the IRA AND nowadays the taliban al queda..we survive terror..but a part of us dies in the fear.
musicalglenn 6 months ago
@ludocrat i think this movie exagerates just to show the horrors that could happen if there ever was such an event and as a pessemistic film
jmwestful 5 months ago
@jmwestful
It'd be nice if you were right, but just one 1MT nuclear warhead airbursting over central London would level everything within three miles from the hypocentre, killing millions instantly. There'd be severe blast damage over 9 miles away and the radioactive fallout would render most of the countryside downwind uninhabitable for months. That's one megaton. 400MT were aimed at the UK by the USSR. If anything, the scale of the catastrophe depicted in 'Threads' is an underestimate.
ludocrat 5 months ago
Do yourselves a favour: do NOT watch the entire documentary. If you really have to, DO NOT sroll down and look at the thumbnails for the next parts in the "Suggestions" section on the right especially for anything after PART 5. Seriously, you know how Youtube has a habit of picking the best frame for a thumbnail for any situation, and it picks the NASTIEST BITS. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
PART 5, DO YOU HEAR ME? DO NOT WATCH PAST PART 5!
DON'T LOOK AT THE THUMBNAILS AND LOOK AWAY WHEN EACH VID ENDS
Nurdapurda 11 months ago
HAHAH THESE FUCKEN WHITE BITCHES GONNA BE BLOWN AWAY.
ComingDawnRed 11 months ago
@ComingDawnRed And East Asia's not too far from Russia either ...
Nurdapurda 11 months ago
I have italian subtitles. Contact me if you want
jacktorrance1978 11 months ago
After the blast you have 30 min to go as far as possible to reach a safe place to protect you from fallouts
Kitjune1996 1 year ago
I live within 10 miles of a military,industrial,and population target. Growing up during the cold war, I knew I would not feel any pain. Just a millisecond of extreme heat.
22reTOYOTA 1 year ago
how horrible!!!
boigen 1 year ago
"...on t'telly..."
Theperson45 1 year ago 4
Why are subtitles is this for the American viewers?
Professor6871 1 year ago
@knightryderrwn .. Soviet Russia had a no strike first policy for the entire cold war, it was always NATO and the US that always maintained the "integrity of a pre-emptive strike". The only time Russia came close to launching was during the 1980's during able archer following the deployment of the US missiles in Germany and the ability to hit Russian targets within 8 minutes, but Russia did not launch because no Nato launch was detected and only 50% of the inelegance needed for "Ryan" came in.
kilmjaa 1 year ago
@kilmjaa The USSR would have thrown both chemical and biological weapons into what was then West Germany, if they had invaded it. These weapons are weapons of mass destruction just like nukes are. VX nerve gas would of been a dooms day weapon that the Soviets had plenty of it and were prepared to use it. For gad sack they put genitically engineered smallpox on their missiles so that they could insure themselves of an outright victory in nuclear war.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@kilmjaa Actually, your statement that the Soviets have no first strike policy during the Cold War is untrue. They had a first use policy and continue to have a first use policy for tactical nuclear weapons today. In fact, Russia has stated that they reserve the right to a nuclear first strike even in a conventional war.
DefconWarningSystem 1 year ago
and to think, that's my history teacher running into woolworths, clever man!
billyshoepack 1 year ago
7:08 guy taking a shit
thehelix27 1 year ago
Gamma rays can not kill you. They can only turn lead into dust. But at high levels, it turns YOU into dust. Atomic dust to be scientific and all but you don't care..
VanHollam 1 year ago
Lung cancer vs fallout dust
animatetime 1 year ago