Powerful, horrific, terrifying, so much so it's almost unbelievable that humans could do this to each other. They can of course, history tells us that. Sure it's only drama, but drama based on history is never that far off the mark. It didn't happen in the cold war, we thought we'd made it, but look at events since the end of the cold war ... and think again.
As an American and a filmmaker I still have to concede that the BBC has defeated Hollywood hands down with this motion picture. This remains the number one sheer most terrifying sequence in all cinema. Period. Scared me as a child and still scares me today at 43. Well done.
Anyone caught in the open air beneath the fireball would be either vaporised or turned to carbon in an instant, leaving a White shadow on the ground where they were laying. The early trinity tests and hiroshima re-enactment videos also here on you tube explain the atomic bombs powers more clearly.
this should still be shown in schools like when I was a kid. scared the crap out of me. But to those doubters and general internet trolls this was written by nuclear scientists. PS the full version of this is on google Vids. Thumbs up to pass the message on.
I don't know if I'm againjst or for us having nuclear weapons - whichever is safer - there seems to be no definitive answer to that debate - I reckon once a nuclear war starts the whole world would end so unless we all get rid of them there's always a risk
would fires of the magnitude shown in this clip use an awful lot of oxygen to burn and produce an awful lot of co, CO2, etc? what effect would this have?
This was shown on BBC1 when I was 11 years old, at a time when everyone in my class at school believed that there was a strong possibility we would all be killed in an instant sometime soon. I had a friend that used to lie in bed crying if he heard aircraft passing overhead, and can remember vividly the terror on everyone's faces when the local air raid sirens were tested.
"Two boys on a playground, trying to push each other down. See the crowd gather 'round, nothing attracts a crowd, like a crowd. The song by Soul Asylum, Black Gold explains perfectly how this shit happens. Also see Peter Gabriel "War Without Tears" People can be so cool, loving and universal at times, and yet so fucking stupid, hateful land pigheaded at other times. Fucking ignorant asshole leaders for all of our nations..
What's so bleak about this film is that it shows what life would be like as far as twenty years after the war - total crop losses, starvation, disease...I think at one point the film points out that it would take a whole decade for the population to stop declining.
@TheComedian95 In the movie it says there will be an explosion, and then fallout afterwards. It seems reasonable that the explosion's effects are felt in stages. I'd suppose in such an explosion some types of energy travel faster than others.
I'd never really considered it before, but the fact that an entire generation grew up in a climate where nuclear war was a pertinent possibility really explains a lot...
there will be no food problem in zombie apocalypse as the only problem will be the flesh eating zombies but in nuclear apocalypse you cannot grow crops and all the available tinned food will be contaminated
Actually tin food and bottled water is what people were stocking up on during the cold war. You cant grow crops least not in the traditional sense after an event like this.
this is a good example why all nukes should be destroyed, because war is the answer to some things( not every thing but some) ive never seen a M416 level a whole city.
This has brought back the most horrifying nightmares I had after I saw this film when I was 12. I'll never forget that woman covering her face and peeing herself and then the mother's face suddenly being freeze-framed in the white-out...my mum covered my eyes after that bit. Bit late, mum!
I so agree with all the people who said this scared them as a child..it is so, so real...am never going to watch the full thing!
What with this and all the public safety announcements at the time..!
I remember this film too --I think about 15 yrs ago? I thought it was A LOT more frightening and realistic than the Day After. So much more frightening today, I can't watch the rest of the film. Now, none one I know remembers this....maybe they ought to show it again with the way the world is going...
We watched this movie in school (I was 6 years old in '84), and it was pretty brutal. We lived near an American air base where my dad worked and my mum would always tell me and my brother if something happened she would take us both by the hand and start walking towards the blast. I still remember it now (I'm 31) and it gives me chills. What the fuck were they thinking?!?!?!! I'd have rather had a nice bedtime story from Disney :'(
As an American I vividly remember watching "The Day After" when I was about 8 years old and it freaked me out. 26 years later I was still thinking about it. I found it online and kept seeing comments about Threads. I had never heard of it. After watching it I can safely say that I'm glad that I only saw the American movie and not this as a child. I think I would have ended up in a psych hospital. This movie is terrifying and with the little faith I have left in humanity it seems too real.
This film genuinely terrified me having seen it 3 months ago, I can't imagine what it must have been like to see it in 1984. phantomposter is right that we should never forget but we live in a far less volatile nuclear environment, where war is exceptionally unlikely, where total global stockpiles have declined from 66,000 nuclear warheads in 1985 to less than 10,000, and where yields are much lower. Not that it matters 500kt or 20mt if you're under it but noone deploys over 1MT any more.
At the time it was essential to keep this image in the public pscyhe as Nuclear war was a very real and imminent threat.
I think everyone should watch this movie, and although we are living in a more orderre world now there cannot be complacency on issues such as these.
The truth is that the bombs we have now are over 10x the power of those seen in threads, and must never be used, ignorance is bliss on some issues but not one this serious
I agree that yes it was very imporatant to keep this in the public pscyhe at the time but not appropiate for 11 year old school kids to watch!
Everyone should watch it but as an ADULT. I recently re watched it and it is a truely powerful film with a very very important messge. But at the itme all it did was terrify me.
But the world is even more dangerous than it was in 1984. India, Pakistan and North Korea all have nukes and Iran is developing them.
Admittedly the cold war is over but East West relations haven't been that rosy over the last couple of years? A lot people think Obama is going too wave a magic wond and get rid of nuclear weapons which he isn't going to do.
This move is one of the few that has genuinely frightened me. Just the clip alone will likely give me nightmares tonight. No way am I watching the rest of it again. Haven't seen it since I first watched it 23 years ago.
the term magadeath was coined when teller the farther of the hydrogen bomb pushed forward the building of these supers which could bring mega death on a maga scale................
Is that justification seeing that the Soviet's were developing the same hydrogen bombs as the Americans were doing in the 1950s? In WW2 the development of the original atom bomb was also done for political reasons as well as its military uses.
This is one of the most jaw-droppingly terrifying and depressing pieces of film-making I've ever seen. Quite how anyone could watch this and still think nuclear weapons were a good idea is beyond me.
I still they are a good idea. Ultimately as deterrent. Which is still there purpose today.There would never be a nuclear war. Mainly because due the after effects the fall out mainly. They are just old age relics that are used for sabre rattling. Also funny how no nation that has nuclear weapons is invaded. funny that. for more information read into M.A.D. I think they beautiful mainly because it gets rid of everything and everything has to start all over again. Something pure about that.
But it wouldn't be like starting all over again. There would be radiation and loads of dead people and half demolished buildings. Also the ozone layer would be buggrered
the human race has always found that it is easyer to destroy than it is to create and i think religion will be the start and the end of all things.its frightening to think that only a small number of people control and hold our future in a nuclear world
The drama stated that both East and West used 3000 megatons in a nuclear war. This is an incredible amount of explosives given that even one megaton is the equivalent of a miilion tonnes TNT. How would anybody on earth survive the initial attack given these stats? Nobody really knows what this kind of weaponary would have on our environment? There by any prediction of what a post nuclear world would be like will always be conservative one?
We the people, as in all rational loving people of the world, should take this evil capacity away from leaders, no man has the right to declare himself God over any other, be it to make things good, or destory all we love, NO HUMAN BEING has the right to make a decision to destroy this Earth.
I think the most powerful moment in this scene, honestly, is when the woman covers her mouth and pisses her pants. Thats quite literally what most people would do, because we are animals and when such a dreadful, miserable terrifying death is about to befall not only you but the whole world you love, rationality..all things that make us human, cease to function, all you can do, is go into shock and piss your fucking pants.
@mrmonkeyman1985 Pissing and shitting yourself when faced with a life and death situation is a biological reaction to free the body of excess weight for the perceived struggle, so stow your psychobabble. Are you a commie?
@geoffck6969 I wonder if that's backed up by evidence. E.g. have they observed other animals that shit themselves before a battle tend to survive more than ones that don't? How was this researched? I can only imagine people that excrete immediately before fleeing would have survived more often. Still, I don't know of any animals that do that. Do gazelle do it? Also, I'd expect vomiting to be part of this response. Do people do that? Maybe it's like crying; we do it when we're helpless, babies.
This is one of the movies that has really scared me... it's just so realistic and morbid. And the way society just collapses afterwards... it's just horrifying.!
Yes and it's still scary. I saw it when it came out (I was 12) and seeing it again is horrifying because I remember that the filmmakers had really done their homework... consulting with scientists on what exactly happens when a mushroom cloud appears... :-(
I saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. We had a historian tell us about every single detail and that was probably the scariest part of it. to realise how close we actually got to total distruction.
He paused the film just after the first explotion and told us that if this had happened for real, 30 seconds before the first bomb hit the uk, there would have been 5 bombs hitting Denmark(where I live) due to important sea rutes and it would have distroyed the whole country.
This is what our sick, materialistic world needs to happen to remind us of the evil we have committed towards it. Credit crunch?! Don't make me laugh; if and when it's over the evil human race will just go back to "want, want, want" and "spend, spend, spend" just as it has increasingly done over many, many years. Let this film be a lesson to us all.
I can just see what a gentle little soul "zsushbear" is from his photo that I've just had the misfortune to view; presumably, though, it's an improvement on the depraved lunatic who happens to be the real thing.
High altitude nuclear bursts produce a tremendous Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), which shorts out electronics. Detonate a few well-placed nukes in the atmosphere, and you can blanket an entire nation in a devastating EMP that would cripple its electrical grid and ruin most modern electrical equipment, and much of it would be permanently damaged. This shuts down critical communications links, and imagine what it would do to a world that relies so heavily on computers.
You could effecively destroy modern society wih EMP weapons alone. I never understood the idea of smashing and irradiating everything when you could send society back to the stone age simply by frying the electronics. Most of the people I know would practically curl up and die without their cell phones.
Ruth would have been better off staying in the street and letting the bomb fall right on her head considering everything she goes through later in the movie.
I can remember walking through sheffield town center not long after they had made this and there were loads of body outlines a-la crime scene- it scared me to death i was only young
IF someone throws nukes, it probably won't be on a huge scale. It's not like as soon as a single nuke is launched every single one goes into the air and touches down on a large city somewhere for the specific purpose of death! Most likely, the nuke will be traced back to it's source and that's what will be facing severe reprimands. Besides, some of the better missiles have a yield of MAYBE 400kt per warhead with 12 warheads per missile, and not all will be fired at once. That would be silly.
That's a bit like a tightrope walker who's a couple of hundred feet along a tightrope that stretches out for miles in front of him...every step he takes he says "Ha, I haven't fallen off yet - that means I'll never fall off!"
If they really WON'T use them, why not get rid of the fucking things? Is conventional war not enough of a deterrent? What, 30 million Russians, 17 million Germans, 2 million British, 3 million French in the 20th Century alone? Plus change? Fuck.
Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, but we've all grown up in the shadow of them. There is not one single moment, that you or i have spent without at least one of these pointed at us at any given time. In my case, 40 years, yours, 26.
Catblanket14uk... I wish you were correct.. but the fact it hasn't happened YET is not the same as saying it will NEVER happen! We've been lucky so far... but wars still happen... countries still hate each other... I don't have such a rosy view of human nature to think that people with withhold nuking others just because it's "wrong". After all, the United States STILL thinks they were right to bomb Hiroshima.
Hey, less of the "rosy view of human nature" bit. I happen to agree with you. I'm trying to be positive about it all. As i've said so often before, having those things pointed at me for 4 decades has been no joke. I still think it's a form of psychological blackmail. But, there's a first time for everything. Look at the new bounds of insanity 9/ 11 broke. So i respect your opinion.
BTW, I'm the bitterest cynic you'll ever meet, i see right thru ww2, and DON'T AGREE with Hiro/ Nagasaki.
Yeah, its the sickest movie i've ever seen. I used to think that Texas Chainsaw Massacre was brutal, but its like a childrens movie compared to Threads.
christ, i know..... its late and i cant be bothered checking their profiles. think they're just a bunch of pretentious rap fans that want to grow up LOL!!
oh no, of course not, that's not why NATO and the Warsaw pact put trillions of dollars into nuclear weapons, we came very fucking close on several occasions, it could even happen today with Putin before leaving suit funding a new ICBM programme what with the conflicts of territory in Ossetia, Ideology with Iran & their nuclear power, Resources and even money, it could always happen as long as the means are available.
Citizens of Nagasaki and Hiroshima never thought 'it would happen' either...
Probably with the weapons of today a lot worse depending which way you look at it. When you consider that Hiroshima was a 13 Kiloton explosion, the B-61 nuclear bomb has a predicted yield of around 170 Kiloton's on full set and that's not even an ICBM, which of today's standards, release multiple warheads in space that detonate around 100+ KT each, the damage if we ever went to nuclear war is not even imaginable. Fallout?, very evident in Chernobyl and thats 1 site, imagine thousands of sites.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl were not films I assure you and if you mean 'threads' it is an accurate dramatised 'what if', it almost happened when the US forgot to mention they were launching a rocket for research into space, yet the russian's thought they were about to be nuked, ready to fire, only 1 man's reserve saved us from a nuclear exchange. I don't know the full figures for nuclear weapons but russia has well over 300 ICBM's, imagine Hiroshima, but 10 times worse each then x 300...
Not quite, Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened in 1945 during the US/Japan conflict, it was where the first nuclear weapons were used and a careful reminder of why we must never use them and exercise responsibility, 120,000 died immediately many more through the effects of fallout later. Chernobyl happened on the 26th April 1986 and the land there is still highly radioactive, it is a ghost town now. Search for EITHER on google or on youtube and you'll see for yourself.
because when the red worm takes a wink in flap jaw space with the tuning fork, a raw blink is made on hairi kairi rock. It's quite amazing really and you too will understand when you see it. If you don't, I cannot elaborate what would happen.
jumping in the sea would not help anything... the pressure would probably still kill you depending on you'r possition, and if you were lucky to survive anyways you can't hold your breath forever and you would still die from the fallout.
CharitableView you mean the 2 million unlucky ones who did survive seeing that their world now be polluted and ravaged beyond any repair. I m opinion society wouldn't return to a sub-medieval existence, it would be more like a return to something akin too the stone age come extinction existence.
Apparently that is a reply to my comment? I have seen the whole film quite a few times and it is quite clear to me that the editing is flawed in a number of places which spoils an otherwise very good, effective film (for its day).
It may not be perfect but the first time i saw this on BBC1 in the 80s it was frightening and hard hitting. It was an excellent film for its time. The Day After has better visual effects but the story wasnt as hardcore as Threads, infact it was more like the little house on the prairie with a nuclear twist.
mrhat1978 - you are entitled to your opinion. The explosions in Threads were far better yes compared to poor explosions in the distance in The day after. But yes the vaporised and firestorm effects were better and more realistic which Threads lacked. I did say Threads was a better film!
Powerful, horrific, terrifying, so much so it's almost unbelievable that humans could do this to each other. They can of course, history tells us that. Sure it's only drama, but drama based on history is never that far off the mark. It didn't happen in the cold war, we thought we'd made it, but look at events since the end of the cold war ... and think again.
mandrake127 1 month ago
I remember watching this in school when I was 11, scared the shit out of me.
samman183 1 month ago
E.T at 4:02
Matthewisnotfunny 2 months ago
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Matthewisnotfunny 2 months ago
As an American and a filmmaker I still have to concede that the BBC has defeated Hollywood hands down with this motion picture. This remains the number one sheer most terrifying sequence in all cinema. Period. Scared me as a child and still scares me today at 43. Well done.
iwantoldschool 2 months ago
this is terrifying but at the same time it gives me a boner
SatanIsSextingMe 3 months ago
Sick, fucking truth. God help us.
mongohotline 4 months ago
Anyone caught in the open air beneath the fireball would be either vaporised or turned to carbon in an instant, leaving a White shadow on the ground where they were laying. The early trinity tests and hiroshima re-enactment videos also here on you tube explain the atomic bombs powers more clearly.
Schurtburg 6 months ago
I saw this at school and the fact that I am from Sheffield and was living there at the time frightened the life out of me!
morgansifer82 11 months ago
@morgansifer82 Same story for me - even worse: I was born in Sheff on May 26th 1982, the very day that the bombs fell in the film! Creepy.
voodoodanny 8 months ago
In the firestorm many would also suffocate as the fires would use up all the available oxygen.
poodtang1 11 months ago
this should still be shown in schools like when I was a kid. scared the crap out of me. But to those doubters and general internet trolls this was written by nuclear scientists. PS the full version of this is on google Vids. Thumbs up to pass the message on.
jaydabee 1 year ago
Towards the end, its kinda eerie how you can't distinguish if its screaming that you hear or the heavy winds.
AnarchistGoth 1 year ago
@AnarchistGoth I thought the same thing
SatanIsSextingMe 3 months ago
At 2:05 - that's the worst Dr Evil impression ever ;)
DomSezXL 1 year ago
I don't know if I'm againjst or for us having nuclear weapons - whichever is safer - there seems to be no definitive answer to that debate - I reckon once a nuclear war starts the whole world would end so unless we all get rid of them there's always a risk
AtheistSword 1 year ago
DIE SCUM! DIIEEE!!!
HeathenPapistFilth 1 year ago
4:03
ET is dying :(
koficoipo 1 year ago 3
@koficoipo Holy crap, I thought the same exact thing. XD
lunaticorthelover 1 year ago
@koficoipo holy shit as i do freeze frame it it is E.T o_O? wtf is he doing in england xD
crownos1988 1 year ago
would fires of the magnitude shown in this clip use an awful lot of oxygen to burn and produce an awful lot of co, CO2, etc? what effect would this have?
hplexmark1 1 year ago
This was shown on BBC1 when I was 11 years old, at a time when everyone in my class at school believed that there was a strong possibility we would all be killed in an instant sometime soon. I had a friend that used to lie in bed crying if he heard aircraft passing overhead, and can remember vividly the terror on everyone's faces when the local air raid sirens were tested.
ianchard 1 year ago
This is the best nuclear docudrama ive ever seen!
joelang6126 1 year ago
"Two boys on a playground, trying to push each other down. See the crowd gather 'round, nothing attracts a crowd, like a crowd. The song by Soul Asylum, Black Gold explains perfectly how this shit happens. Also see Peter Gabriel "War Without Tears" People can be so cool, loving and universal at times, and yet so fucking stupid, hateful land pigheaded at other times. Fucking ignorant asshole leaders for all of our nations..
broncobra 1 year ago
4:02 looks like e.t.?
molash31 1 year ago
In more ways than one, this film is superior to "The Day After".
alonenjersey 1 year ago
What's so bleak about this film is that it shows what life would be like as far as twenty years after the war - total crop losses, starvation, disease...I think at one point the film points out that it would take a whole decade for the population to stop declining.
titans1984 1 year ago
There would be no point on hiding or running. Just face it and burn.
Malcolmsgretsch 1 year ago
I don't wanna sound ignorant, but why does it take so long for the heat radiation to melt the city?
TheComedian95 1 year ago
@TheComedian95 In the movie it says there will be an explosion, and then fallout afterwards. It seems reasonable that the explosion's effects are felt in stages. I'd suppose in such an explosion some types of energy travel faster than others.
ChristopherDone 1 year ago
I'd never really considered it before, but the fact that an entire generation grew up in a climate where nuclear war was a pertinent possibility really explains a lot...
horrabletypoe 1 year ago
BETTER DEAD THAN RED!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@geoffck6969: Better Red than dead. LOL. ;-p.
MiracleMileV8 1 year ago
4:02 - thats the little kid melting. Dude this film is fucked up..
HorusVrae 1 year ago
man i remember this as a kid, shat me up proper !!!!!
forgot about the woman that pisses a drop that made me chuckle second time around
fowlskins 1 year ago
God are we any better prepared?
TheDynaRoo 1 year ago
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Cardiff67235 1 year ago
This is why I approve of zombie apocalypse and not nuclear apocalypse.
vikramvaranasi 1 year ago
They both end up the same when it comes to the want of food.
goddesslush 1 year ago
@goddesslush
there will be no food problem in zombie apocalypse as the only problem will be the flesh eating zombies but in nuclear apocalypse you cannot grow crops and all the available tinned food will be contaminated
vikramvaranasi 1 year ago
Actually tin food and bottled water is what people were stocking up on during the cold war. You cant grow crops least not in the traditional sense after an event like this.
goddesslush 1 year ago
Apart from the obvious terror, this film has characters and lives that real people can relate to. Especially if you've ever shopped in Burtons.....
Cardiff67235 2 years ago
this is a good example why all nukes should be destroyed, because war is the answer to some things( not every thing but some) ive never seen a M416 level a whole city.
coltoncollis 2 years ago
This has brought back the most horrifying nightmares I had after I saw this film when I was 12. I'll never forget that woman covering her face and peeing herself and then the mother's face suddenly being freeze-framed in the white-out...my mum covered my eyes after that bit. Bit late, mum!
I so agree with all the people who said this scared them as a child..it is so, so real...am never going to watch the full thing!
What with this and all the public safety announcements at the time..!
Gingersnaptastic 2 years ago
I remember this film too --I think about 15 yrs ago? I thought it was A LOT more frightening and realistic than the Day After. So much more frightening today, I can't watch the rest of the film. Now, none one I know remembers this....maybe they ought to show it again with the way the world is going...
aaamee 2 years ago 6
We watched this movie in school (I was 6 years old in '84), and it was pretty brutal. We lived near an American air base where my dad worked and my mum would always tell me and my brother if something happened she would take us both by the hand and start walking towards the blast. I still remember it now (I'm 31) and it gives me chills. What the fuck were they thinking?!?!?!! I'd have rather had a nice bedtime story from Disney :'(
uphoriak 2 years ago
As an American I vividly remember watching "The Day After" when I was about 8 years old and it freaked me out. 26 years later I was still thinking about it. I found it online and kept seeing comments about Threads. I had never heard of it. After watching it I can safely say that I'm glad that I only saw the American movie and not this as a child. I think I would have ended up in a psych hospital. This movie is terrifying and with the little faith I have left in humanity it seems too real.
siviechi 2 years ago 6
This was shot in my home city, Sheffield, it's weird to see thing in town (some of which are knocked down anyway) get blown up.
tom360100 2 years ago
This is great! LET'S NUKE SOMEBODY!!!!!!
egglord72 2 years ago
OMG you really want it?
AlexxAXe 2 years ago
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egglord72 2 years ago
I just watched this in my ap environmental science class now i really want a bomb shelter
blackdove123 2 years ago
forgive us
johnny450gf 2 years ago
Who are "you"?
ludocrat 2 years ago
This film genuinely terrified me having seen it 3 months ago, I can't imagine what it must have been like to see it in 1984. phantomposter is right that we should never forget but we live in a far less volatile nuclear environment, where war is exceptionally unlikely, where total global stockpiles have declined from 66,000 nuclear warheads in 1985 to less than 10,000, and where yields are much lower. Not that it matters 500kt or 20mt if you're under it but noone deploys over 1MT any more.
danspacie 2 years ago
1 Megaton is still enough to do a hell of a lot of damage though.
Random22222y 2 years ago 3
We watched this when we were about 11 at school at I can remember not being able to sleep for weeks and having panic attacks.
What the hell were the teachers thinking letting us watch it at that age!
They must have had a sadistic streak.
michelleconchita 2 years ago
At the time it was essential to keep this image in the public pscyhe as Nuclear war was a very real and imminent threat.
I think everyone should watch this movie, and although we are living in a more orderre world now there cannot be complacency on issues such as these.
The truth is that the bombs we have now are over 10x the power of those seen in threads, and must never be used, ignorance is bliss on some issues but not one this serious
MrPhantomposter 2 years ago 2
I agree that yes it was very imporatant to keep this in the public pscyhe at the time but not appropiate for 11 year old school kids to watch!
Everyone should watch it but as an ADULT. I recently re watched it and it is a truely powerful film with a very very important messge. But at the itme all it did was terrify me.
michelleconchita 2 years ago
But the world is even more dangerous than it was in 1984. India, Pakistan and North Korea all have nukes and Iran is developing them.
Admittedly the cold war is over but East West relations haven't been that rosy over the last couple of years? A lot people think Obama is going too wave a magic wond and get rid of nuclear weapons which he isn't going to do.
garyturner96 2 years ago
This move is one of the few that has genuinely frightened me. Just the clip alone will likely give me nightmares tonight. No way am I watching the rest of it again. Haven't seen it since I first watched it 23 years ago.
rayvn03 2 years ago
the term magadeath was coined when teller the farther of the hydrogen bomb pushed forward the building of these supers which could bring mega death on a maga scale................
smigbabb 2 years ago
Another term came to my mind than just mega death on mega scale try mega suicide. One question why the hell develop a hydrogen bomb in first place?
garyturner96 2 years ago
THats exactly what Albert Einstein said
But it was mainly political, and was also a usefull tool to make the russians fuck off, now, well, everybody is getting them, even our enemies
mirlin235 2 years ago
Is that justification seeing that the Soviet's were developing the same hydrogen bombs as the Americans were doing in the 1950s? In WW2 the development of the original atom bomb was also done for political reasons as well as its military uses.
garyturner96 2 years ago
It never should be justified at all, they would destroy our world, and man kind as we know it
mirlin235 2 years ago
I seen this movie when I was 7, it scared the CR@P out of me!!!
titajackie 2 years ago
1:24 ! Ha ha ha ha haaaaa! XD
Notice the use of cartoony breaking glass sound effects!
kitty3309 2 years ago
very scary..i bet all of England was shocked when they saw this...not to mention the rest of the world!
MadeInENGLAND19731 2 years ago
I watched this movie in high school about 10 years ago, its fucked up
NORTHERNBUFFALO 2 years ago
very important movie. scared me to death! Just drop it on top of me I wouldn't want to be around after it goes off. C.H.
holmsatlarge 2 years ago
Well it IS May 25...ironically, today 25 May, the DPRK announced a nuclear test.
Pdasilva0324 2 years ago
Exactly what i was thinking on may 25
arnolddisco 2 years ago
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grinningape 2 years ago
i heard they are developing nuclear donkeys to blow up spain
fastville 2 years ago
Kill em... kill em ALL.
Take your bayonet and
etc
HeathenPapistFilth 2 years ago
Watch the 1965 one. It's called The War Game.
A far-off bomb is said to sound like a giant door being slammed in the depths of Hell.
That gave me the creeps.....
Kelly14UK 2 years ago
Lol! When did all this happen then?
Was i on holiday?
HeathenPapistFilth 2 years ago
hehe
ShockwaveProducts 2 years ago
This is one of the most jaw-droppingly terrifying and depressing pieces of film-making I've ever seen. Quite how anyone could watch this and still think nuclear weapons were a good idea is beyond me.
MogadonWoman 2 years ago
Agreed. The whole film is on the Google videos site - it's a v depressing watch, but should be required viewing for everyone!
Ntone606 2 years ago 3
I still they are a good idea. Ultimately as deterrent. Which is still there purpose today.There would never be a nuclear war. Mainly because due the after effects the fall out mainly. They are just old age relics that are used for sabre rattling. Also funny how no nation that has nuclear weapons is invaded. funny that. for more information read into M.A.D. I think they beautiful mainly because it gets rid of everything and everything has to start all over again. Something pure about that.
goddesslush 2 years ago
But it wouldn't be like starting all over again. There would be radiation and loads of dead people and half demolished buildings. Also the ozone layer would be buggrered
arnolddisco 2 years ago 3
1:20 Man in the Hat,
He's Such a Twat...
Kelly14UK 2 years ago 3
@Kelly14UK LOL! Yea he is, but he has a cool hat!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@Kelly14UK BEST YOUTUBE COMMENT EVER!
geoffck6969 1 year ago
the human race has always found that it is easyer to destroy than it is to create and i think religion will be the start and the end of all things.its frightening to think that only a small number of people control and hold our future in a nuclear world
smigbabb 2 years ago
nuclear power is the worst thing we found
TURBODORK2 2 years ago
Jesus Christ they've done it!
Thank God we never went there.
joshuatrees 2 years ago
They got the bit about Woolworths right
cbp76 2 years ago 19
The drama stated that both East and West used 3000 megatons in a nuclear war. This is an incredible amount of explosives given that even one megaton is the equivalent of a miilion tonnes TNT. How would anybody on earth survive the initial attack given these stats? Nobody really knows what this kind of weaponary would have on our environment? There by any prediction of what a post nuclear world would be like will always be conservative one?
turner60 2 years ago
We the people, as in all rational loving people of the world, should take this evil capacity away from leaders, no man has the right to declare himself God over any other, be it to make things good, or destory all we love, NO HUMAN BEING has the right to make a decision to destroy this Earth.
mrmonkeyman1985 3 years ago 5
I think the most powerful moment in this scene, honestly, is when the woman covers her mouth and pisses her pants. Thats quite literally what most people would do, because we are animals and when such a dreadful, miserable terrifying death is about to befall not only you but the whole world you love, rationality..all things that make us human, cease to function, all you can do, is go into shock and piss your fucking pants.
mrmonkeyman1985 3 years ago 34
@mrmonkeyman1985 Pissing and shitting yourself when faced with a life and death situation is a biological reaction to free the body of excess weight for the perceived struggle, so stow your psychobabble. Are you a commie?
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@geoffck6969 I wonder if that's backed up by evidence. E.g. have they observed other animals that shit themselves before a battle tend to survive more than ones that don't? How was this researched? I can only imagine people that excrete immediately before fleeing would have survived more often. Still, I don't know of any animals that do that. Do gazelle do it? Also, I'd expect vomiting to be part of this response. Do people do that? Maybe it's like crying; we do it when we're helpless, babies.
ChristopherDone 1 year ago
this is a lot better and more disturbing that the american equivalent "the day after"
mrhat1978 3 years ago 7
True that...the Day After was childs play compared to this film.
DocMarquis 2 years ago 2
I am in COMPLETE agreement with catblanket14uk
cat14uk 3 years ago
Oh get a sense of humor you idiot. If you've a problem with me just get in touch...
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
This is one of the movies that has really scared me... it's just so realistic and morbid. And the way society just collapses afterwards... it's just horrifying.!
Curucuar 3 years ago 4
Yes and it's still scary. I saw it when it came out (I was 12) and seeing it again is horrifying because I remember that the filmmakers had really done their homework... consulting with scientists on what exactly happens when a mushroom cloud appears... :-(
yirphd 3 years ago
I saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. We had a historian tell us about every single detail and that was probably the scariest part of it. to realise how close we actually got to total distruction.
He paused the film just after the first explotion and told us that if this had happened for real, 30 seconds before the first bomb hit the uk, there would have been 5 bombs hitting Denmark(where I live) due to important sea rutes and it would have distroyed the whole country.
Curucuar 3 years ago
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Die, HUMAN FILTH !!! Die.... Diiee...DIIIIEEEE!!!!
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
04:03
Capricornboy 3 years ago
Ell-eee-ott
GoldsteinsBook 3 years ago
This is what our sick, materialistic world needs to happen to remind us of the evil we have committed towards it. Credit crunch?! Don't make me laugh; if and when it's over the evil human race will just go back to "want, want, want" and "spend, spend, spend" just as it has increasingly done over many, many years. Let this film be a lesson to us all.
rabengeraun 3 years ago
"Needs to happen!"
Killing millions is your solution is it ?
Yes. We live in a selfish, Godless World but MURDER on a massive scale is not the answer.
Revaluation and Education and LOVE OF HUMANKIND.
I suppose you and your family have a bunker ?
NO !
You are an EVIL IDIOT !!
zsushbear 3 years ago 5
I can just see what a gentle little soul "zsushbear" is from his photo that I've just had the misfortune to view; presumably, though, it's an improvement on the depraved lunatic who happens to be the real thing.
rabengeraun 3 years ago
I bet this is Bush's favorite movie.
FromtheDarkstream 3 years ago 5
4:16 Oh my God, they destroyed Woolworths! At least thats one thing we won't have to witness if we have a nuclear attack today. Life imitating art.
Ashworth6 3 years ago 3
The image of the woman pissing herself with fear will stay with me to my grave
rabengeraun 3 years ago 4
lol I thought it was pretty funny. Call me insensitive if you wish.
TheBackOfTheBoat 3 years ago
You're insensitive.
siriuslybloo 3 years ago 2
No, wait -- that was mean of me. You're not insensitive. You're just really, really immature.
siriuslybloo 3 years ago 4
What I don't understand is why did a Nuclear warhead only explode 'above' the North Sea? Wouldn't they have dropped it on land?
miniroll32 3 years ago
Airburst weapons explode at a certain altitude. Apparently they're more effective or something. That'd be my guess.
moomoocajoo 3 years ago
High altitude nuclear bursts produce a tremendous Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), which shorts out electronics. Detonate a few well-placed nukes in the atmosphere, and you can blanket an entire nation in a devastating EMP that would cripple its electrical grid and ruin most modern electrical equipment, and much of it would be permanently damaged. This shuts down critical communications links, and imagine what it would do to a world that relies so heavily on computers.
corvus1970 3 years ago 3
You could effecively destroy modern society wih EMP weapons alone. I never understood the idea of smashing and irradiating everything when you could send society back to the stone age simply by frying the electronics. Most of the people I know would practically curl up and die without their cell phones.
siriuslybloo 3 years ago 3
Thanks for explaining that; physics was never my best subject at school!
rabengeraun 3 years ago
Ruth would have been better off staying in the street and letting the bomb fall right on her head considering everything she goes through later in the movie.
themustardrebellion 3 years ago 3
I can remember walking through sheffield town center not long after they had made this and there were loads of body outlines a-la crime scene- it scared me to death i was only young
JULESANDCLEO 3 years ago 2
IF someone throws nukes, it probably won't be on a huge scale. It's not like as soon as a single nuke is launched every single one goes into the air and touches down on a large city somewhere for the specific purpose of death! Most likely, the nuke will be traced back to it's source and that's what will be facing severe reprimands. Besides, some of the better missiles have a yield of MAYBE 400kt per warhead with 12 warheads per missile, and not all will be fired at once. That would be silly.
nosorab3 3 years ago
this movie always scared me, its scarier than any other film.
alexblog567889 3 years ago 8
Trust me people, PLEASE... i was 16 years old, way back in 1984, and it STILL hasn't happened yet.
Believe me, they will NOT do it.
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
That's a bit like a tightrope walker who's a couple of hundred feet along a tightrope that stretches out for miles in front of him...every step he takes he says "Ha, I haven't fallen off yet - that means I'll never fall off!"
If they really WON'T use them, why not get rid of the fucking things? Is conventional war not enough of a deterrent? What, 30 million Russians, 17 million Germans, 2 million British, 3 million French in the 20th Century alone? Plus change? Fuck.
beastatlay 3 years ago
Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, but we've all grown up in the shadow of them. There is not one single moment, that you or i have spent without at least one of these pointed at us at any given time. In my case, 40 years, yours, 26.
Q So why haven't they used them?
A Psychological insurance.
They also use them to keep us scared...
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
Catblanket14uk... I wish you were correct.. but the fact it hasn't happened YET is not the same as saying it will NEVER happen! We've been lucky so far... but wars still happen... countries still hate each other... I don't have such a rosy view of human nature to think that people with withhold nuking others just because it's "wrong". After all, the United States STILL thinks they were right to bomb Hiroshima.
yirphd 3 years ago
Hey, less of the "rosy view of human nature" bit. I happen to agree with you. I'm trying to be positive about it all. As i've said so often before, having those things pointed at me for 4 decades has been no joke. I still think it's a form of psychological blackmail. But, there's a first time for everything. Look at the new bounds of insanity 9/ 11 broke. So i respect your opinion.
BTW, I'm the bitterest cynic you'll ever meet, i see right thru ww2, and DON'T AGREE with Hiro/ Nagasaki.
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
Aayup! God bless South Yorkshire!! XXX.
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
how could they make you watch this in school lol im 23 and it scares me 2 death! lol
neilam6 3 years ago
Renta Crowd the film extras must have nightmares too:)
iLuvHairyChests22 3 years ago
This was a recruitment video for organised religion:)
iLuvHairyChests22 3 years ago 2
I watched this in English class. It'll always haunt me.
TesticalScabPie 3 years ago 4
Yeah, its the sickest movie i've ever seen. I used to think that Texas Chainsaw Massacre was brutal, but its like a childrens movie compared to Threads.
lmlove80 3 years ago 3
The thing is its reality it could happen,at least you will get a free cremation,best thing is to open your house door and let it get you,
You will not feel much if your drunk,it will be all over vapourised,maybe The Jehovahs Witnesses are right.
iLuvHairyChests22 3 years ago
AAAAAAAHHHH!!!! i get it!! you lot have read too much iceberg slim books!!!
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
Is there anyone posting on here that speaks English ?
adm924s 3 years ago 2
christ, i know..... its late and i cant be bothered checking their profiles. think they're just a bunch of pretentious rap fans that want to grow up LOL!!
catblanket14uk 3 years ago 3
i watched this in my english lesson :S
AliciaBaybii 3 years ago
This was actually a nuclear attack from the south of england! In a bid to cut down on benefit fraud we choose to wipe out several northern cities.
miraoister 3 years ago
eeerrr, as if dat shit wud eva appen!!!!
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
oh no, of course not, that's not why NATO and the Warsaw pact put trillions of dollars into nuclear weapons, we came very fucking close on several occasions, it could even happen today with Putin before leaving suit funding a new ICBM programme what with the conflicts of territory in Ossetia, Ideology with Iran & their nuclear power, Resources and even money, it could always happen as long as the means are available.
Citizens of Nagasaki and Hiroshima never thought 'it would happen' either...
Chaingunkill 3 years ago 2
you may say dis stuff but stil recon it wud not be az bad az they make out.
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
Probably with the weapons of today a lot worse depending which way you look at it. When you consider that Hiroshima was a 13 Kiloton explosion, the B-61 nuclear bomb has a predicted yield of around 170 Kiloton's on full set and that's not even an ICBM, which of today's standards, release multiple warheads in space that detonate around 100+ KT each, the damage if we ever went to nuclear war is not even imaginable. Fallout?, very evident in Chernobyl and thats 1 site, imagine thousands of sites.
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
yeah but dat waz just a flm, ow cud dat shit appen
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl were not films I assure you and if you mean 'threads' it is an accurate dramatised 'what if', it almost happened when the US forgot to mention they were launching a rocket for research into space, yet the russian's thought they were about to be nuked, ready to fire, only 1 man's reserve saved us from a nuclear exchange. I don't know the full figures for nuclear weapons but russia has well over 300 ICBM's, imagine Hiroshima, but 10 times worse each then x 300...
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
Y iz dat shit then? if that wud av append i wold av eard about it on da tv
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
Not quite, Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened in 1945 during the US/Japan conflict, it was where the first nuclear weapons were used and a careful reminder of why we must never use them and exercise responsibility, 120,000 died immediately many more through the effects of fallout later. Chernobyl happened on the 26th April 1986 and the land there is still highly radioactive, it is a ghost town now. Search for EITHER on google or on youtube and you'll see for yourself.
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
120 people died, nar mate cant be. not dat many ppl av died by someting at 1 time eva, iz you 4 real
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
I give up. It is 120,000, not 120, a hell of a lot more.
HAVE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF ON WIKIPEDIA AT LEAST, they are for real.
Hell, the 9/11 world trade center attacks killed 2,998 people. Question I really have to ask you is are you for real?
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
you call 911 4 elp, not to be killed. I tink you iz lyin bout dis owl ting, u can suck a fart outta my ass!!!
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
Hahahahaha!
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
dis iz no lathin matter, u lied 2 me about this owl ting. y did u lie 2 me
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
because when the red worm takes a wink in flap jaw space with the tuning fork, a raw blink is made on hairi kairi rock. It's quite amazing really and you too will understand when you see it. If you don't, I cannot elaborate what would happen.
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
for lyin dat iz, boms iz no latin matter and u make fun ov it
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
if my homboys waz ere we wud do u with ur uzi's and i wud cuss u bad skank
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
yawn.
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
ok, 4 real dis time, wat wud really appen in dis situation
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
see below.
Chaingunkill 3 years ago
I duz not undastand, see below wat. dis ad betta not be no prank. i cud survive dis any way az i wud jump in da sea
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
jumping in the sea would not help anything... the pressure would probably still kill you depending on you'r possition, and if you were lucky to survive anyways you can't hold your breath forever and you would still die from the fallout.
Curucuar 3 years ago
What a Pillock !!!!
7607987600 3 years ago
i loked up dat shit on google, so u iz 4 real. wud a bom kill someone ard like mike tyson
THEBONEENGINE 3 years ago
CharitableView you mean the 2 million unlucky ones who did survive seeing that their world now be polluted and ravaged beyond any repair. I m opinion society wouldn't return to a sub-medieval existence, it would be more like a return to something akin too the stone age come extinction existence.
turner60 3 years ago
that wee boy looks like damien omen2
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
wee boy....lol
ARTSIEBECCA 3 years ago
he does! anyway i'm scottish. can't help it ha ha :)
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
Nuff said...I just thought that was cute!
ARTSIEBECCA 3 years ago
what a relief. thought i'd offended someone again... all the best!
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
lol peeing his pants
360andmerule 3 years ago
The one problem with this film is that it is very badly / confusingly edited.
thesubtleface 3 years ago
I thought the editing was very good. Perhaps you should watch the whole movie and it will make more sense to you.
yirphd 3 years ago
Apparently that is a reply to my comment? I have seen the whole film quite a few times and it is quite clear to me that the editing is flawed in a number of places which spoils an otherwise very good, effective film (for its day).
thesubtleface 3 years ago
It may not be perfect but the first time i saw this on BBC1 in the 80s it was frightening and hard hitting. It was an excellent film for its time. The Day After has better visual effects but the story wasnt as hardcore as Threads, infact it was more like the little house on the prairie with a nuclear twist.
jolonui 3 years ago
the day after had better effects? uh...i don't think so...
mrhat1978 3 years ago
mrhat1978 - you are entitled to your opinion. The explosions in Threads were far better yes compared to poor explosions in the distance in The day after. But yes the vaporised and firestorm effects were better and more realistic which Threads lacked. I did say Threads was a better film!
jolonui 3 years ago 4
lol at "Little house on the prairie with a nuclear twist'lol!!
Phedrus1975 2 years ago