@antourte1 - you fail. This is a docudrama, which explains and plays out what could have happened during the escalation of tensions during The Cold War. They aren't going to start the programme with a nuclear warhead exploding without building up dramatic tension - that would make boring television. If you want the boom, try part 5 or wherever it happens.
Because I sure as hell don't hear from either our politicians nor media as America hurtles itself towards WW3 and most likely, Nuclear Holocaust. Truly insane times.
I haven't seen this movie in years until some months ago on youtube. Interestling enough, you actually have to bypass existing copyright laws as I can find no copies on Netflix nor anywhere else! But back on topic, it's amazing what insane times we live in in the year 2012. Where are the movies like 'Threads' coming out these days which could at least knock some common sense into the war mongering psychopaths screaming "NUKE IRAN!" or "Bomb, bomb Iran!"? Is it just a collective ignorance?
Thanks so much for posting this! I've been trying to find this movie for years! It both fascinated & scared the crap out of me 28 years ago when I first saw it on CBC (Canada)! It's still just as poignant 28 years later, especially with all the crap still going on in the Middle East & North Korea. Funny, the more things change, the more they stay the same...
@stanley13991 Ciao! È stato trasmesso una sola volta in Italia e ne circola una versione in DVD, ma rigorosamente in inglese e senza sottotitoli. Eh, già, da noi solo cose allegre. ;)
Wait, wait, wait a second here.... she knows she is pregnant and yet she is still drinking beer? Might as well get an abortion then considering the child will probably die of FAS.
@HYDRAdude No, she didn't, but the point I'm trying to make is that the film is not about that, and compared with the total annihilation of all mankind, I thought it was a small point. Plus, the film was made in 1984, and people were not so aware of things like that.
they made us watch this at school in sheffield, i was 14 on the 5th march 1984, i shit me sen for weeks after, nightmares the lot - especially when they used to turn on the air raid sirens and made us go on our knees with our hands over our heads under the tables, this was regular between 1979 and 1984 if i remember right - scary as hell, especially seeing our own city blown to bits it seemed so real - still we had the human league i suppose !!
That kid's little electronic game reminds me of the Christmas when allll the kids, siblings and cousins, got handheld electronic games. Darn near drove the adults right up the walls.
I think part of the reason this film was so striking is the setting. I live fairly close to Sheffield, and the reactions to this film when it was shown in History were tremendous. It's easier to detatch from New York, which is a common setting for these films, because you think that it won't happen to you(though I imagine those films would be frightening to someone living in New York). When it's a little town in North England, it seems to have a larger effect. For me, at least. Could be wrong.
The time has come for us all to seek truth and stop tolerating deception and division. Only the truth can stop the wars and make the world the paradise it can be. Search for "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then click on "The Present" to open it. What it says will transform us and our world.
We are very lucky this did not happen (yet) as of 2011. Many close calls. That being said, this movie, along with Testament from the US in 1983 are my favorite. The Day after was ok, but it could have been better. However, it was still a good move and scared the hell out of me in November 1983 and gave me nightmares. Threads takes it to another realistic level. Here's to the Brits for making the Best film on the subject.
I remember watching this as s kid ..scared the crap out of me.... when the bomb dropped on tv there was a thunderstorm that night and I woke up screaming the place down thinking it was world war 3!
All the people who died immediately from the blast are LUCKY! Id seek areas where im most likely going to be blast to smitherines after seeing this movie! lol
A nuclear war is winnable if we properly prepare for it. I also think a first strike option should never be taken off the table. The soviets had this option and had one of its red army generals come forward to say that if it went for a first strike it would launch everything it had in its inventory. We need to not only keep our stockpile but expand it, and upgrade all our targeting systems and redirect a good portion towards emerging threats. Peace thru Strength.
The only reason you and me are still alive is because a Russian commander didn't believe his computer - TWICE! - he got thrown out of the army for not firing on the USA as he was automatically supposed to when his computer showed a US launch (which turned out to be low clouds).
1983 should have been the end of the world - but the USA remains the only country who has ever used a weapon of mass destruction.
I've been collecting loads of microwave ovens. When i've got about a hundred or so, i'm going to make a nuclear bomb. Haven't decided who i'm going to drop it on yet, probably USA.
sheffield is a shithole anyway. An atomic bomb dropped on the city would do it a world of good. Making it look alot better then it did before the bomb dropped on it.
The only film I have ever watched where I have stuck my danger mouse back catalogue on straight after!!, not a good film to sit through if your already on a downer!
'Threads' was one of the most powerful films I have ever seen in my life & in a sane world it would be shown in every classroom in every country in the world (though if it were a sane world there would be no weapons that could cause species destruction I guess). I was a young teenager living near Sheffield when this film was shown but anyone anywhere who was a certain age back in the early 80s will remember Threads and the huge contrast between it & the "Protect & Survive" state propaganda on TV
@timmyk1983 The game COULD be one called "Pakri Monster" which was a kind of a Pac Man before the earth cooled :-) I had something similar in the US in the early 80s. To say it lacks graphics and fluidity during play would be something of an understatement..and the memory inside this game couldn't run a modern wristwatch..
Sheffield... not to be rude, or anything because we Americans call our towns rotten nick names too for fun. Is it often referred to as Shitfield? I just had to ask, please someone let me know. And I'll tell you I lived in a town called Pocatello, and its in Idaho... this is bad. Poke a dildo, I Da ho. LOL ;) Someone please let me know if Shitfield is used fairly frequently. Thanks.
@jmitterii2 yes it is known as shitfield lol! i have friends there so yeah they do,with a kind of pride really. i gotta say i think the reason they picked sheffield for a nuking was for the "what? it can get worse than it is already??" lol!
@jmitterii2 LOL. Not that I've heard of but I'm Sheffield born and bred so maybe I'm among those least likely to hear such a thing! Usually in England, cities nicknames come from something they are renowned for, hence Sheffield being known as the City of Steel.
@ChristopherSaindon Sheffield is an unusual place to want to visit for someone across the pond, if you don't mind me saying. Usually if anyone's travelling that far they would visit London, unless they are coming for a specific event which happens in another city. Personally I can't wait to move to the Netherlands, Sheffield is nice, it's got a good mix of everything but the UK feels like a sinking ship at the moment. I will miss the peak district though!
@tis2nwod Well I just have to say thanks to you all as my two sisters and my nephew had a GREAT vacation in the UK. Yes they stayed in London but did try to get out and about. My nephew tells me that when he is rich he'll take me to the big hotel in London so I can have tea and breakfast like he did! We love you all :-)
@ChristopherSaindon Well that's nice of him! I didn't realise we were known for tea and English breakfasts there - Thought it was just castles, queens and driving on the left. I hope they didn't visit during the riots... Not a good time to be in London!
For those who haven't seen it already, an equally disturbing and graphic movie (from about the same time) is The Day After. Last I looked, it was also available in full here on Y.T. Check it out - North America's version of the same catastrophic nonsense.
@SeismicMultimedia The Day After is pretty awesome, but I think it pales in comparison to Threads. Threads has a rawness and sense of profound human introspection which seem to transcend propaganda. The Day After, while not without moments of drama, seems to have almost a campy feel, preventing the viewer from connecting with the characters in any lasting way. Couple this with Virgil Thompson's sound-track and you basically have God-bless-America optimism with a gothic tint.
Taliban are well financed and supported by millions. Iran is a supporter, Iran is creating plutonium a by product of them enriching uranium for their power plants. They have the ingredients for a bomb. In the 1990s a nuclear scientist traveled the world selling the plans for nukes to anyone that could afford to pay him.
@MSanchez379 I agree. I was living in Sheffield at the time it was aired on television. I wanted to leave immediately. Thankfully I got my wish a year later. I was only 12 at the time.
This is what would happen scientifically and literally. But if a person believes in God, or a God or divine being, I believe the earth would end...I don't believe any loving God would allow us to continue as this movie depicts. I am not Christian, I am Wiccan and believe in something far too loving; something we are part of. However, we must never say it would never happen. This movie gave me nightmares.
@308CaliberJustice Yeah likewise it certainly makes you think. Of course there was the US version (the day after I think it was called), again that was scary as hell, I'm glad the big red button never got pressed for real anyway
I would've never watched this movie withouth one of my teacher. He showed this to us and after that i thought that this wasn't bad at all. Now I can watch it again, because I don't remember anything of this movie.
This is a brilliant film - and everyone should watch it full length. All of our petty concerns will turn into a massive and cruel joke, once this shit happens. Thank you for posting this!
Actually I could walk into a big box store and walk out with I everything I need to make the type of Bomb tested at Trinity, NM. It's not that hard to do and you do not need plutonium. You also do not need to mold a sphere of plastic explosives for an implosion (that is for a plutonium bomb).
@runwolf No you couldn't. The bomb made at Trinity was the result of years of the best scientific minds and limitless wartime funding. You have neither.
The nuclear threat hasn't gone away. If anything its still possible. North Korea, Muslim terrorist groups, Unstable Pakistan etc etc. The security services in a number of western countries are warning of the risk of a terrorist nuke.
This is--no ifs, ands, or buts--the most frightening and one of the most disturbing films ever made. I don't know if the impact would be the same on someone who didn't grow up during the Cold War, but...when you consider that countries like India and Pakistan are armed to the teeth with nukes, and, unlike rationalist and athiest Western and commie cultures of the Cold War, are actually looking forward to death, people should take the threat of nuclear war very seriously.
@acsial if they were REALLY looking forward to death they'd kill themselves. Little religious talk about how great the afterlife is, is backed up by action
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.
This was played by TV Ontario (Canada) not long after it was released in the UK, and the parents, being from the UK, thought it would be good for me to see this as a child. I can still hear the screams, but it made the point. This should be required viewing in any country that still views nukes as a viable alternative.
This was played by TV Ontario not long after it was released in the UK, and the parents, being from the UK, thought it would be good for me to see this as a child. I can still hear the screams, but it made the point. This should be required viewing in any country that still views nukes as a viable alternative.
I saw this when I was 12 and living with my family in the U.K., and it scared me shitless then. and as an adult, I find it nearly unwatchable, as it scared me so much as a kid.
Charlie Brooker mentioned this on his new BBC2 programme, so out of curiosity, I thought I'd check this out for myself. This is probably the scariest thing I've ever seen, frankly. Not just the initial bomb attack, but the aftermath as the programme shows a nation such as the UK continually descending into a sort of lawless, deadly third-world country as a result.
I could barely sleep after watching this initially last night. Great programme though.
I'm from Ireland and this is the first time I've this. Pretty scary. I'm 38 and I can remember when I was a kid I was scared shitless with the goings on between Reagan and the USSR in the early 80's. I think there is more of a danger now with a lot more rogue states getting hands on nuclear weapons.
I remeb=mber being in Swansea in 1984 when they tested the air raid siren, but didn't tell us it was a test. But everyone just carried on as normal! Thank god for Gorbachev!
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YouTube should post this themselves as a 2 part video (2 parts due to the maximum video length possible to post here being 1 hour).
A special session of the UN should be called and all non-member states leaders invited for a special viewing of this movie.
People are worried about North Korea and Iran but if you think about it logically you'll understand that the biggest threat to mankind is The United States of Americas opinion of itself and it's actions worldwide based on it!
Yup. Hard to disagree with any of those excellent views, especially about the USA's current, irritating, dangerous identity crisis! Provocative, but well-said!
I was a bit harsh on the Americans there. It's really the fault of the politicians rather than the country as a whole. It's unreasonable to blame the citizens of a whole country for anything that their leaders/rulers decide to do in their name. The American people seem alright.
Everywhere has been fucked by politics. If Britain were in control, or any other 'western' nation, the end product would probably be very similar to what we have now. But it is irritating, I agree.
@DizzyVizion You weren't just harsh, you were also blindingly ignorant by claiming that the world's true enemy is the United States of America.
Do you realize the impact movies like The Day After and Threads had on global politics? If you don't, you should go read up on it before ranting about those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil yanks threatening to nuke the planet into bedrock.
I don't regard USA as being evil at all. Just their elected and unelected leaders of government and commerce. Big bidniz'n'shit! I don't think anyone is naive enough to believe otherwise.
@DizzyVizion I haven't been smoking anything, thanks.
You said the biggest threat to mankind is the United States of America. Since this video deals with nuclear war, it's obvious you think the American government has never been anything but just a bunch of cowboys armed with nukes.
Take the crack pipe out of your own mouth before you go claiming someone else needs to lay off the drugs, yeah?
@greg0987654321jyfjdc No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely never ever ever ever ever ever EVER will the Taliban acquire a nuclear weapon. It is absolutely entirely outside of their means. Iran, a reasonably powerful nation of 70 million, hasn't even been able to make one single miserable cruddy nuke that equals the relatively tiny ones dropped on Japan 60 years ago, so a bunch of - let's fact it - small-timers like the Taliban are a laughable threat in the grand scheme of things.
@liamdude4 I gather that when most people talk about "zomg terrorists with nukes", they're talking about the fabled "suitcase nukes". Too bad they don't exist and are Defense Department boogeymen - I seriously believe that everyone honestly thinks they're real, though.
@supercj12 But the shelf-life of a uranium based nuke is rather short. Plutonium based nukes are too complex for non state actors to detonate.... for now anyways =S
@ElTantaran86 nope not even pakie's try russia ..or north korean will hit us first ...or turkey ..not paki they are way to scared to do that ..if they do then other countries might fall suit to destroy that country alone..i could be wrong but like the old saying goes ..keep ur friends close but keep ur enimes ok so i spelled that wrong but closers ...trust me if u think russia is playing nice..YEA infrong of camaras but ...do u really think that they now like us ?? HELL TO THE FUCK ME NO ..
@TithonusSyndrome Spoken like someone who fails to realize that groups no longer need to PRODUCE their own nukes, if they can find a sympathetic nation willing to sell or donate them. If, for example, Pakistan were to fall to the ongoing Taliban/Al Qaeda insurrection there, its nuclear arsenal might well come into terrorist possession. If Iran were to develop its own nuke (and never say never), it might well donate one or more to "the cause" of Islamic extremism.
@TithonusSyndrome of course, it wouldn't take a high yield fission bomb to cause total havoc and chaos in a major metropolitan city. All you would need is some enriched uranium or depleted plutonium wrapped with a hundred sticks of dynamite detonated from a lighter-than-air vessel, like a hot air balloon, launched from the roof of a 30 story apartment building in downtown manhattan on a windy day. MILLIONS would die from radiation poisoning. It would destroy the NY city economy.
Furthermore, the fallout from the dirty bomb balloon would make the city unlivable for thousands or years, as well as anywhere else downwind of the bomb. A coordinated attack over several major cities around the country would level the economy and render a nationwide situation equivalent to a modern nuclear war. The only reason al quada hasn't already done this is because we're simply lucky. No measure of security/regulation on nuclear material has protected us. Just Alquada's stupidity.
@DeimosSaturn "Millions" would die? How do you gather? Where do these figures come from? What sort of calculations went into this? Because it sounds like spurious scaremongering to me, the Cold War version of a scary story.
@TithonusSyndrome And yet we were able to conceive of and create a bomb which never existed. The technology and will are there now, whether we like it or not. I wouldn't let down my guard and bet against them.
@flyoverjoe This is because you don't understand the difference in materials and expertise between the Allied nations with unlimited wartime funding, and a tiny cachet of uneducated terrorists with limited means. It also probably has something to do with the fact that you have an emotional stake in dreaming of existential threats as a form of escapism from your dreary workaday life.
@TithonusSyndrome I applaud you on your impressive knowledge of my life (a complete stranger) and motivations, and Iran's (a country never visited) collective wisdom or lack of and nuclear aspirations. Never ever is an awfully long time.
@flyoverjoe I don't have to visit Iran. Perhaps you've heard that certain publications exist at the scholarly level devoted to the evaluation of these issues? By the time Iran has nuclear delivery capability, something will exist that will utterly nullify it, such as the development of interceptor platforms such as YAL, or for that matter a one world government, rendering their attainment of such weapons a moot point and indistinguishable in consequence from never having them.
@TithonusSyndrome OK. So now you're saying Iran will have nuclear capability? But we (the western world) will have anti-nuke technology. So, no need to fret. I hope you're right.
@flyoverjoe i would worry about russia even more, they're supposed to have multiple modified Topol-Type ABM avoiding ICBMs installed in silos towards the end of this year through 2013
@sr71ablackbird Definitely worth concern. However, I don't think Russian leadership wants to bring about their own destruction via nuclear armageddon. With Iranian leadership I'm not so sure.
@flyoverjoe well, let's put it this way, The U.S. is the one to worry about flaunting the nuclear score card, because if boots end up on the ground over in iran, it's going to give the war-mongering candidates an excuse to play that card to break the backs of iranians. that's what i worry about, going to war with iran, & one knows what that will lead to.
@sr71ablackbird I totally agree. I don't want to go to war with Iran. However, if we identify nuclear production facilities, I have no problem bombing those targets into oblivion. Just like Israel did to Iraq about thirty years ago.
@TithonusSyndrome "such as the development of interceptor platforms such as YAL, or for that matter a one world government....form of escapism from your dreary workaday life"
You think nuclear war is a fantasy, even though it has happened in the past and it has come very close to happening several times after, yet you think there will be a one world government before Iran develops balloons with dynamite and uranium.
@DeimosSaturn For the last time, fool, what you are describing is a piddling RADIOLOGICAL weapon with nowhere near the destructive potential of a proper NUCLEAR weapon. The distinction is far more than semantic, and evidently beyond your comprehension. The fact that I allude to the patently unlikely formation of a one-world government isn't because I consider it eminently possible; it's simply because that's how backwards the Iranian nuclear program is.
@TithonusSyndrome What makes you such an expert that you can be so sure? It might be improbable the Taliban could make a nuclear weapon, but what if they acquired one from former communist Russia for instance?
@John27346 Three years of nuclear engineering school and counting, that's what. How easily do you think a nuclear weapon could be concealed? Why would Russia ever, ever, EVER want to sell such a device to a terrorist organization that hates them? How would they deliver it? Let me guess, you studied at the Hollywood Movies School of Nuclear Policy.
@John27346 A school where one learns nuclear engineering, yes. It also happens to be a school for other subjects, but that isn't germane to the topic at hand.
10 MINUTES IN AND NO BOOM YET? FAIL
antourte1 4 days ago
@antourte1 - you fail. This is a docudrama, which explains and plays out what could have happened during the escalation of tensions during The Cold War. They aren't going to start the programme with a nuclear warhead exploding without building up dramatic tension - that would make boring television. If you want the boom, try part 5 or wherever it happens.
psychonaut3 3 days ago
@antourte1 Want a boom? Eat chili and wait an hour. Problem solved.
SenorSpode 1 day ago
Because I sure as hell don't hear from either our politicians nor media as America hurtles itself towards WW3 and most likely, Nuclear Holocaust. Truly insane times.
MrJackbruns28 1 week ago
I haven't seen this movie in years until some months ago on youtube. Interestling enough, you actually have to bypass existing copyright laws as I can find no copies on Netflix nor anywhere else! But back on topic, it's amazing what insane times we live in in the year 2012. Where are the movies like 'Threads' coming out these days which could at least knock some common sense into the war mongering psychopaths screaming "NUKE IRAN!" or "Bomb, bomb Iran!"? Is it just a collective ignorance?
MrJackbruns28 1 week ago
Thanks so much for posting this! I've been trying to find this movie for years! It both fascinated & scared the crap out of me 28 years ago when I first saw it on CBC (Canada)! It's still just as poignant 28 years later, especially with all the crap still going on in the Middle East & North Korea. Funny, the more things change, the more they stay the same...
gogohappygirl 2 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@gogohappygirl It showed in Seattle about that time, too. Tell you what, it not only terrified me, but a lot of my neighbors and friends as well.
SenorSpode 1 day ago
"Supposed to bring good luck, init?" Hahaha, you idiot...
Ijsutwv 3 weeks ago
'' I haven't done anything wronnnng--g '' XD
MNMALBOSH 3 weeks ago
ciao, è possibile vedere il film in lingua italiana? grazie :-)
stanley13991 3 weeks ago in playlist 80's Film & TV - Threads
@stanley13991 Ciao! È stato trasmesso una sola volta in Italia e ne circola una versione in DVD, ma rigorosamente in inglese e senza sottotitoli. Eh, già, da noi solo cose allegre. ;)
Stagafulaizaha 3 weeks ago
Wait, wait, wait a second here.... she knows she is pregnant and yet she is still drinking beer? Might as well get an abortion then considering the child will probably die of FAS.
HYDRAdude 3 weeks ago
@HYDRAdude Oh that's just stupid and completely beside the point
raphael44ify 5 days ago
@raphael44ify Let me guess, your mother must of drunk plenty while carrying you I take it?
HYDRAdude 5 days ago
@HYDRAdude No, she didn't, but the point I'm trying to make is that the film is not about that, and compared with the total annihilation of all mankind, I thought it was a small point. Plus, the film was made in 1984, and people were not so aware of things like that.
raphael44ify 4 days ago
"Alison whats an abortion?" "Ohhh so THATS it" LOL
brisgay 3 weeks ago
Wow. I was 15. Never forgot those milk bottles melting. Strange how things stick with you.
Onejob2001 1 month ago
they made us watch this at school in sheffield, i was 14 on the 5th march 1984, i shit me sen for weeks after, nightmares the lot - especially when they used to turn on the air raid sirens and made us go on our knees with our hands over our heads under the tables, this was regular between 1979 and 1984 if i remember right - scary as hell, especially seeing our own city blown to bits it seemed so real - still we had the human league i suppose !!
0114owl1867 1 month ago
That kid's little electronic game reminds me of the Christmas when allll the kids, siblings and cousins, got handheld electronic games. Darn near drove the adults right up the walls.
kayper54 1 month ago
I need to fix dinner this evening for my wife, I wonder where I can find a trendy apron like the one that Bill is wearing.
rbryant100 1 month ago
Ahhhhh, the days when kids didnt know what abortions were and parents could discipline their kids.
Burnzi2 2 months ago
@Burnzi2 What ever happened to those days? Oh yeah, everyone started suing...
Timmoux 1 month ago
I think part of the reason this film was so striking is the setting. I live fairly close to Sheffield, and the reactions to this film when it was shown in History were tremendous. It's easier to detatch from New York, which is a common setting for these films, because you think that it won't happen to you(though I imagine those films would be frightening to someone living in New York). When it's a little town in North England, it seems to have a larger effect. For me, at least. Could be wrong.
MadameApathy 2 months ago
@MadameApathy pretty sure sheffield isnt a little town! still, we watched this at school in the 90s and i was shitting it for months!
hogalog 1 month ago
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jchijan 2 months ago
I have an old NTSC copy of this movie on VHS (not recorded from TV...)
In my copy, there is music playing over the introduction.
BBC really needs to release this on DVD or Blu-Ray, here in America.
Diskoboy1974 2 months ago
We are very lucky this did not happen (yet) as of 2011. Many close calls. That being said, this movie, along with Testament from the US in 1983 are my favorite. The Day after was ok, but it could have been better. However, it was still a good move and scared the hell out of me in November 1983 and gave me nightmares. Threads takes it to another realistic level. Here's to the Brits for making the Best film on the subject.
ashland1977 2 months ago
TF THE SPIDER IN THE BEGINNING!!!! HOLY SHIT PHOBIA OF SPIDERS AND I ALMOST SHIT MYSELF!!!
methd2madness 2 months ago 7
@methd2madness LOL!!
NookieCha 2 months ago
@methd2madness i take it u haven,t seen the film arachnophobia then...lol
davidhaythornthwaite 1 month ago
I remember watching this as s kid ..scared the crap out of me.... when the bomb dropped on tv there was a thunderstorm that night and I woke up screaming the place down thinking it was world war 3!
scatteredmist 2 months ago
Your belovd mofo Thatcher did MORE DAMAGE to Sheffield industry than the Soviets could ever do! Suck on that- Camoron lovers
enviousfred 2 months ago
@enviousfred Nice spelling. I think a nuke could do a bit more damage than Thatcher somehow.
SgtLovely 2 months ago 3
@enviousfred Best comment ever!!!
TheGodParticle 2 months ago
I can't help but think back to 1995 when I watch this...and sadly, the time present time...
ThunderHead72 3 months ago
All the people who died immediately from the blast are LUCKY! Id seek areas where im most likely going to be blast to smitherines after seeing this movie! lol
VivaLaTrumpet 3 months ago
A nuclear war is winnable if we properly prepare for it. I also think a first strike option should never be taken off the table. The soviets had this option and had one of its red army generals come forward to say that if it went for a first strike it would launch everything it had in its inventory. We need to not only keep our stockpile but expand it, and upgrade all our targeting systems and redirect a good portion towards emerging threats. Peace thru Strength.
damiion666 3 months ago
@damiion666
lol - you twat
The only reason you and me are still alive is because a Russian commander didn't believe his computer - TWICE! - he got thrown out of the army for not firing on the USA as he was automatically supposed to when his computer showed a US launch (which turned out to be low clouds).
1983 should have been the end of the world - but the USA remains the only country who has ever used a weapon of mass destruction.
jazzx251 3 months ago
google videos has the full film with out gaps
deskallywagz 3 months ago
not to mention it will give em the excuse to stamp on the occupy movement
deskallywagz 3 months ago
It's been banned. Nobody wants to see the truth. I'm afraid we will see WW III in our lifetime which comes with world economy crash.
WinterHaven 3 months ago
Did you notice that the voice of all BBC's jounarlists and presenters are equal?!
fernandesilyt 3 months ago
YEEEEEES!
I've been looking for this for days, wonder why I never bothered to check youtube :s
amandarandom89 3 months ago
I've been collecting loads of microwave ovens. When i've got about a hundred or so, i'm going to make a nuclear bomb. Haven't decided who i'm going to drop it on yet, probably USA.
LordRassy 3 months ago
04:25 i find it propaganda because the soviets did not invade for selfish reasons.
jijdom 3 months ago
sheffield is a shithole anyway. An atomic bomb dropped on the city would do it a world of good. Making it look alot better then it did before the bomb dropped on it.
The24547377 4 months ago
@The24547377 Is it really that bad?
jjobie 3 months ago
@jjobie Oh yes its that bad.
The24547377 3 months ago
@The24547377 If you think Shefield is a shithole then you should see bradford. That Hell on Earth really would be better if a nuclear bomb hit it.
5thcenturyad 3 months ago
The only film I have ever watched where I have stuck my danger mouse back catalogue on straight after!!, not a good film to sit through if your already on a downer!
bl0xta 4 months ago
This just shows you how out of touch liberals were and still are.
TheIntruders 4 months ago
@TheIntruders Um, how so?
jjobie 3 months ago
'Threads' was one of the most powerful films I have ever seen in my life & in a sane world it would be shown in every classroom in every country in the world (though if it were a sane world there would be no weapons that could cause species destruction I guess). I was a young teenager living near Sheffield when this film was shown but anyone anywhere who was a certain age back in the early 80s will remember Threads and the huge contrast between it & the "Protect & Survive" state propaganda on TV
jackamo23 4 months ago
Can someone please tell me what game the boy is playing????
timmyk1983 4 months ago
@timmyk1983 The game COULD be one called "Pakri Monster" which was a kind of a Pac Man before the earth cooled :-) I had something similar in the US in the early 80s. To say it lacks graphics and fluidity during play would be something of an understatement..and the memory inside this game couldn't run a modern wristwatch..
ChristopherSaindon 4 months ago
Welcome to the most depressing two hours in television history/
SputnikMovies 4 months ago 26
@SputnikMovies lol without a doubt
Loftusboi 4 months ago
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RedJoe10 4 months ago
the undertaker will save us all
TheTEAMBUTLER 4 months ago
Sheffield... not to be rude, or anything because we Americans call our towns rotten nick names too for fun. Is it often referred to as Shitfield? I just had to ask, please someone let me know. And I'll tell you I lived in a town called Pocatello, and its in Idaho... this is bad. Poke a dildo, I Da ho. LOL ;) Someone please let me know if Shitfield is used fairly frequently. Thanks.
jmitterii2 4 months ago
@jmitterii2 yes it is known as shitfield lol! i have friends there so yeah they do,with a kind of pride really. i gotta say i think the reason they picked sheffield for a nuking was for the "what? it can get worse than it is already??" lol!
TheBatmansbrother 4 months ago
@jmitterii2 LOL. Not that I've heard of but I'm Sheffield born and bred so maybe I'm among those least likely to hear such a thing! Usually in England, cities nicknames come from something they are renowned for, hence Sheffield being known as the City of Steel.
tis2nwod 4 months ago
@tis2nwod Cool. That's an AWESOME place :-) Someday I want to see it if I can afford the trip over..
ChristopherSaindon 4 months ago in playlist Nuclear War (it's the BOMB!)
@ChristopherSaindon Sheffield is an unusual place to want to visit for someone across the pond, if you don't mind me saying. Usually if anyone's travelling that far they would visit London, unless they are coming for a specific event which happens in another city. Personally I can't wait to move to the Netherlands, Sheffield is nice, it's got a good mix of everything but the UK feels like a sinking ship at the moment. I will miss the peak district though!
tis2nwod 4 months ago
@tis2nwod Well I just have to say thanks to you all as my two sisters and my nephew had a GREAT vacation in the UK. Yes they stayed in London but did try to get out and about. My nephew tells me that when he is rich he'll take me to the big hotel in London so I can have tea and breakfast like he did! We love you all :-)
ChristopherSaindon 4 months ago
@ChristopherSaindon Well that's nice of him! I didn't realise we were known for tea and English breakfasts there - Thought it was just castles, queens and driving on the left. I hope they didn't visit during the riots... Not a good time to be in London!
tis2nwod 4 months ago
@tis2nwod LOL You may not be. But I know HE noticed it :-) And they liked everyone most importantly.
ChristopherSaindon 4 months ago
@tis2nwod I've been to London myself, and I have to say, the breakfasts were AMAZING.
jjobie 3 months ago
André Villas-Boas :)
JanneGuillou 4 months ago
@SilverBars42 threat of what
cpufightclub 5 months ago
@cpufightclub Nuclear Attack.
MiniKirk 4 months ago
One of the scariest movies ever
ThomasBellarusa 5 months ago
humanity first, everything else after , one world and one life to live for everyone. peace
pakkahindostani 5 months ago
For those who haven't seen it already, an equally disturbing and graphic movie (from about the same time) is The Day After. Last I looked, it was also available in full here on Y.T. Check it out - North America's version of the same catastrophic nonsense.
SeismicMultimedia 5 months ago
@SeismicMultimedia The Day After is pretty awesome, but I think it pales in comparison to Threads. Threads has a rawness and sense of profound human introspection which seem to transcend propaganda. The Day After, while not without moments of drama, seems to have almost a campy feel, preventing the viewer from connecting with the characters in any lasting way. Couple this with Virgil Thompson's sound-track and you basically have God-bless-America optimism with a gothic tint.
MattDawg579 5 months ago in playlist Threads
Taliban are well financed and supported by millions. Iran is a supporter, Iran is creating plutonium a by product of them enriching uranium for their power plants. They have the ingredients for a bomb. In the 1990s a nuclear scientist traveled the world selling the plans for nukes to anyone that could afford to pay him.
NielsShoe 5 months ago
@NielsShoe No, no, no and no.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
This movie scared the shit out of me 15 years ago. And still does today.
MSanchez379 6 months ago
@MSanchez379 I agree. I was living in Sheffield at the time it was aired on television. I wanted to leave immediately. Thankfully I got my wish a year later. I was only 12 at the time.
EverywhereVirtually 5 months ago
@EverywhereVirtually i was living on an Army Base in Texas at the same time... felt much the same as you did...
anisete46 5 months ago
The steering wheel is on the wrong side ○_○
SCIFIguy64 6 months ago
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kuongjah7 6 months ago
@SCIFIguy64 there are cars that have steering wheels on the right
MrGeyzer 5 months ago
@SCIFIguy64 that's how we roll in the UK.
WachtAmWeb 5 months ago
the cat just faceplanted.
BassDudeBear 6 months ago
Lesson 1: Do knock get knocked up before the end of the world.
MasterJediDude 6 months ago
Thats one hell of a spunky spider at the beggining
britelite2657 6 months ago
05:20
Nice boxers bro.
outwrangle 6 months ago
@outwrangle They're not boxers, it's a pink woman's apron.
5thcenturyad 6 months ago
05:03 Those peas are a little over cooked.
MrDarkTides 6 months ago
SPOILER ALERT!! JImmy ends up getting nucked. and if that wasn't bad enough...he wakes up in Coronation Street...Oh the poor man!!
musicalglenn 6 months ago
Lol I love british people. Just listening to their accents is hilarious.
eragon2121 7 months ago
@eragon2121 Lol I love American people. Just listening to their accents is hilarious.
eventfularse 6 months ago
This was first shown in the USA on Ted Turner's cable channel TBS. Because he couldn't find any sponsors for it, he aired it out of his own pocket.
MrUnidyne 7 months ago
This is what would happen scientifically and literally. But if a person believes in God, or a God or divine being, I believe the earth would end...I don't believe any loving God would allow us to continue as this movie depicts. I am not Christian, I am Wiccan and believe in something far too loving; something we are part of. However, we must never say it would never happen. This movie gave me nightmares.
SpiritsEnchantments 7 months ago
8:00 Sheffield Main Industries: Steel, Engineering, Chemicals, and Bring Me the Horizon haha
UninsaneRocker 7 months ago
The gas bills are going up again. We should've bombed them in '45 too lol
Kelly14UK 7 months ago
did she throw the cat
BGlimited 7 months ago
They showed this movie on PBS here in the states back in the mid 80s when I was a little boy. Scared the shit out of me.
308CaliberJustice 8 months ago
@308CaliberJustice Yeah likewise it certainly makes you think. Of course there was the US version (the day after I think it was called), again that was scary as hell, I'm glad the big red button never got pressed for real anyway
bl0xta 7 months ago
@greg0987654321jyfjdc --I cant build a boat but with enough money I can buy one...The Taliban sure as hell has got the money for a nuke.
limpiomott2 8 months ago
The entire human species should be retroactively aborted.
UTubeIsTrackingYou 9 months ago
I would've never watched this movie withouth one of my teacher. He showed this to us and after that i thought that this wasn't bad at all. Now I can watch it again, because I don't remember anything of this movie.
XitouXV 9 months ago
This is a brilliant film - and everyone should watch it full length. All of our petty concerns will turn into a massive and cruel joke, once this shit happens. Thank you for posting this!
55ella2007k 9 months ago
Joe from Corrie, lookin forward to seeing that moany twat get his face melted off
fookfocketyfookfook 9 months ago
i got no sleep for a week after watching this
Wolfboy183 9 months ago
At this point I want all the characters to die - don't let me down movie. ...
Xigano1 9 months ago
TithonusSyndrome, unless they get hold of some of those missing U.S.S.R Nukes
FossilsRus 10 months ago
@FossilsRus And then what? How will they deliver it? Oh that's right, the Taliban doesn't have any Nighthawk or Blackjack bombers.
TithonusSyndrome 9 months ago
Saturday...march 5th...2011
MRresievil310 10 months ago
Actually I could walk into a big box store and walk out with I everything I need to make the type of Bomb tested at Trinity, NM. It's not that hard to do and you do not need plutonium. You also do not need to mold a sphere of plastic explosives for an implosion (that is for a plutonium bomb).
runwolf 10 months ago
@runwolf do it
roflrocketrofl 9 months ago
@runwolf No you couldn't. The bomb made at Trinity was the result of years of the best scientific minds and limitless wartime funding. You have neither.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
The nuclear threat hasn't gone away. If anything its still possible. North Korea, Muslim terrorist groups, Unstable Pakistan etc etc. The security services in a number of western countries are warning of the risk of a terrorist nuke.
celticseahorse 11 months ago
@celticseahorse Which ones? Who said that? I don't think you understand the obstacles that such a development faces.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
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compared to this, "The Day After" is a kids' story
IntoTheShade 11 months ago
This is--no ifs, ands, or buts--the most frightening and one of the most disturbing films ever made. I don't know if the impact would be the same on someone who didn't grow up during the Cold War, but...when you consider that countries like India and Pakistan are armed to the teeth with nukes, and, unlike rationalist and athiest Western and commie cultures of the Cold War, are actually looking forward to death, people should take the threat of nuclear war very seriously.
acsial 11 months ago
@acsial if they were REALLY looking forward to death they'd kill themselves. Little religious talk about how great the afterlife is, is backed up by action
simonsomatic 7 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
Gotta love the yorkshire accents. "Ay up Sheffield's been vaporised in't nuclear holocaust. That'll be bad news for Super Blades!"
AllyBScot 11 months ago 4
This was played by TV Ontario (Canada) not long after it was released in the UK, and the parents, being from the UK, thought it would be good for me to see this as a child. I can still hear the screams, but it made the point. This should be required viewing in any country that still views nukes as a viable alternative.
TheReelArbitor 11 months ago
This was played by TV Ontario not long after it was released in the UK, and the parents, being from the UK, thought it would be good for me to see this as a child. I can still hear the screams, but it made the point. This should be required viewing in any country that still views nukes as a viable alternative.
TheReelArbitor 11 months ago
Da_n ... pump up the volume, mate =(
cc1sportingtorver 11 months ago
The one thing this movie gets across is this: In a nuclear war, there is no victory.
TheZombieburner 11 months ago
@TheZombieburner But there is... WAR itself is the winner (of course, I agree with you) !!!!
cc1sportingtorver 11 months ago
I saw this when I was 12 and living with my family in the U.K., and it scared me shitless then. and as an adult, I find it nearly unwatchable, as it scared me so much as a kid.
tillyboos 11 months ago
Charlie Brooker mentioned this on his new BBC2 programme, so out of curiosity, I thought I'd check this out for myself. This is probably the scariest thing I've ever seen, frankly. Not just the initial bomb attack, but the aftermath as the programme shows a nation such as the UK continually descending into a sort of lawless, deadly third-world country as a result.
I could barely sleep after watching this initially last night. Great programme though.
SmithersJones87 1 year ago
I'm from Ireland and this is the first time I've this. Pretty scary. I'm 38 and I can remember when I was a kid I was scared shitless with the goings on between Reagan and the USSR in the early 80's. I think there is more of a danger now with a lot more rogue states getting hands on nuclear weapons.
72mossy 1 year ago 3
I remeb=mber being in Swansea in 1984 when they tested the air raid siren, but didn't tell us it was a test. But everyone just carried on as normal! Thank god for Gorbachev!
Megagremlyn 1 year ago
Gonna get married an ave baby!
73kdt 1 year ago
Plus atlest the Wolves lost.
joeymod135 1 year ago
This was a bit fucking frightening though, It shit Me up as a 7 Year old , & still has a affect
joeymod135 1 year ago
this should awaken us all to the fact that in a nuclear war, there will be no winners. the lucky ones will be the ones who are at groud zero.
jdmerman 1 year ago 3
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YouTube should post this themselves as a 2 part video (2 parts due to the maximum video length possible to post here being 1 hour).
A special session of the UN should be called and all non-member states leaders invited for a special viewing of this movie.
People are worried about North Korea and Iran but if you think about it logically you'll understand that the biggest threat to mankind is The United States of Americas opinion of itself and it's actions worldwide based on it!
DizzyVizion 1 year ago
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@DizzyVizion
Yup. Hard to disagree with any of those excellent views, especially about the USA's current, irritating, dangerous identity crisis! Provocative, but well-said!
ludocrat 11 months ago
@ludocrat
I was a bit harsh on the Americans there. It's really the fault of the politicians rather than the country as a whole. It's unreasonable to blame the citizens of a whole country for anything that their leaders/rulers decide to do in their name. The American people seem alright.
Everywhere has been fucked by politics. If Britain were in control, or any other 'western' nation, the end product would probably be very similar to what we have now. But it is irritating, I agree.
DizzyVizion 11 months ago
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@DizzyVizion
Very fair-minded of you!
ludocrat 11 months ago
@DizzyVizion You weren't just harsh, you were also blindingly ignorant by claiming that the world's true enemy is the United States of America.
Do you realize the impact movies like The Day After and Threads had on global politics? If you don't, you should go read up on it before ranting about those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil yanks threatening to nuke the planet into bedrock.
HooshIsASoup 11 months ago
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@HooshIsASoup
What? Did you not read my comment?
What the fuck have you been smoking lady?
I don't regard USA as being evil at all. Just their elected and unelected leaders of government and commerce. Big bidniz'n'shit! I don't think anyone is naive enough to believe otherwise.
Just say no to crack!
DizzyVizion 10 months ago
@DizzyVizion I haven't been smoking anything, thanks.
You said the biggest threat to mankind is the United States of America. Since this video deals with nuclear war, it's obvious you think the American government has never been anything but just a bunch of cowboys armed with nukes.
Take the crack pipe out of your own mouth before you go claiming someone else needs to lay off the drugs, yeah?
HooshIsASoup 10 months ago 2
some people may learn a thing or two who knows? the taliban could drop a nuke any second now
greg0987654321jyfjdc 1 year ago
@greg0987654321jyfjdc No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely never ever ever ever ever ever EVER will the Taliban acquire a nuclear weapon. It is absolutely entirely outside of their means. Iran, a reasonably powerful nation of 70 million, hasn't even been able to make one single miserable cruddy nuke that equals the relatively tiny ones dropped on Japan 60 years ago, so a bunch of - let's fact it - small-timers like the Taliban are a laughable threat in the grand scheme of things.
TithonusSyndrome 1 year ago 25
@TithonusSyndrome plus what retard in intelligence will fail to notice a launch site under construction lol
liamdude4 1 year ago
@liamdude4 I gather that when most people talk about "zomg terrorists with nukes", they're talking about the fabled "suitcase nukes". Too bad they don't exist and are Defense Department boogeymen - I seriously believe that everyone honestly thinks they're real, though.
TithonusSyndrome 1 year ago
@TithonusSyndrome I actually feel quite reassured after reading your comment. Cheers, mate!
richievegas01 9 months ago 2
@TithonusSyndrome You do realize that there are still mid-soviet nukes on the black market.
supercj12 8 months ago
@supercj12 But the shelf-life of a uranium based nuke is rather short. Plutonium based nukes are too complex for non state actors to detonate.... for now anyways =S
ElTantaran86 8 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome if that's right , then why the fuck the U.S.A is afraid of them ! and afraid of they could do !
look , lets leave politics to the politicians . and anyone who doesnt know what he is talking about must zip it !
walkthrough1234 8 months ago
@walkthrough1234 because it's all fake, al qaeda is cia run.
informationwarfare 8 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome it's not the Taliban that everyone is worried about though: It's Pakistan :S
ElTantaran86 8 months ago
@ElTantaran86 nope not even pakie's try russia ..or north korean will hit us first ...or turkey ..not paki they are way to scared to do that ..if they do then other countries might fall suit to destroy that country alone..i could be wrong but like the old saying goes ..keep ur friends close but keep ur enimes ok so i spelled that wrong but closers ...trust me if u think russia is playing nice..YEA infrong of camaras but ...do u really think that they now like us ?? HELL TO THE FUCK ME NO ..
TOXICFLOWZSHOW 8 months ago
@ElTantaran86 try still hate us ...no doubt about that
TOXICFLOWZSHOW 8 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome Spoken like someone who fails to realize that groups no longer need to PRODUCE their own nukes, if they can find a sympathetic nation willing to sell or donate them. If, for example, Pakistan were to fall to the ongoing Taliban/Al Qaeda insurrection there, its nuclear arsenal might well come into terrorist possession. If Iran were to develop its own nuke (and never say never), it might well donate one or more to "the cause" of Islamic extremism.
Calbeck 7 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome of course, it wouldn't take a high yield fission bomb to cause total havoc and chaos in a major metropolitan city. All you would need is some enriched uranium or depleted plutonium wrapped with a hundred sticks of dynamite detonated from a lighter-than-air vessel, like a hot air balloon, launched from the roof of a 30 story apartment building in downtown manhattan on a windy day. MILLIONS would die from radiation poisoning. It would destroy the NY city economy.
DeimosSaturn 7 months ago
Furthermore, the fallout from the dirty bomb balloon would make the city unlivable for thousands or years, as well as anywhere else downwind of the bomb. A coordinated attack over several major cities around the country would level the economy and render a nationwide situation equivalent to a modern nuclear war. The only reason al quada hasn't already done this is because we're simply lucky. No measure of security/regulation on nuclear material has protected us. Just Alquada's stupidity.
DeimosSaturn 7 months ago
@DeimosSaturn Are there high-yield Fission bombs?
ChristopherSaindon 4 months ago
@ChristopherSaindon That's where most of it comes from, mang.
swagger93 4 months ago
@DeimosSaturn "Millions" would die? How do you gather? Where do these figures come from? What sort of calculations went into this? Because it sounds like spurious scaremongering to me, the Cold War version of a scary story.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome And yet we were able to conceive of and create a bomb which never existed. The technology and will are there now, whether we like it or not. I wouldn't let down my guard and bet against them.
flyoverjoe 6 months ago
@flyoverjoe This is because you don't understand the difference in materials and expertise between the Allied nations with unlimited wartime funding, and a tiny cachet of uneducated terrorists with limited means. It also probably has something to do with the fact that you have an emotional stake in dreaming of existential threats as a form of escapism from your dreary workaday life.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome I applaud you on your impressive knowledge of my life (a complete stranger) and motivations, and Iran's (a country never visited) collective wisdom or lack of and nuclear aspirations. Never ever is an awfully long time.
flyoverjoe 3 months ago
@flyoverjoe I don't have to visit Iran. Perhaps you've heard that certain publications exist at the scholarly level devoted to the evaluation of these issues? By the time Iran has nuclear delivery capability, something will exist that will utterly nullify it, such as the development of interceptor platforms such as YAL, or for that matter a one world government, rendering their attainment of such weapons a moot point and indistinguishable in consequence from never having them.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome OK. So now you're saying Iran will have nuclear capability? But we (the western world) will have anti-nuke technology. So, no need to fret. I hope you're right.
flyoverjoe 3 months ago
@flyoverjoe i would worry about russia even more, they're supposed to have multiple modified Topol-Type ABM avoiding ICBMs installed in silos towards the end of this year through 2013
sr71ablackbird 3 months ago
@sr71ablackbird Definitely worth concern. However, I don't think Russian leadership wants to bring about their own destruction via nuclear armageddon. With Iranian leadership I'm not so sure.
flyoverjoe 3 months ago
@flyoverjoe well, let's put it this way, The U.S. is the one to worry about flaunting the nuclear score card, because if boots end up on the ground over in iran, it's going to give the war-mongering candidates an excuse to play that card to break the backs of iranians. that's what i worry about, going to war with iran, & one knows what that will lead to.
sr71ablackbird 3 months ago
@sr71ablackbird I totally agree. I don't want to go to war with Iran. However, if we identify nuclear production facilities, I have no problem bombing those targets into oblivion. Just like Israel did to Iraq about thirty years ago.
flyoverjoe 3 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome "such as the development of interceptor platforms such as YAL, or for that matter a one world government....form of escapism from your dreary workaday life"
You think nuclear war is a fantasy, even though it has happened in the past and it has come very close to happening several times after, yet you think there will be a one world government before Iran develops balloons with dynamite and uranium.
DeimosSaturn 3 months ago
@DeimosSaturn For the last time, fool, what you are describing is a piddling RADIOLOGICAL weapon with nowhere near the destructive potential of a proper NUCLEAR weapon. The distinction is far more than semantic, and evidently beyond your comprehension. The fact that I allude to the patently unlikely formation of a one-world government isn't because I consider it eminently possible; it's simply because that's how backwards the Iranian nuclear program is.
TithonusSyndrome 2 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome What makes you such an expert that you can be so sure? It might be improbable the Taliban could make a nuclear weapon, but what if they acquired one from former communist Russia for instance?
John27346 6 months ago
@John27346 Three years of nuclear engineering school and counting, that's what. How easily do you think a nuclear weapon could be concealed? Why would Russia ever, ever, EVER want to sell such a device to a terrorist organization that hates them? How would they deliver it? Let me guess, you studied at the Hollywood Movies School of Nuclear Policy.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome Nuclear engineering school?
John27346 3 months ago
@John27346 A school where one learns nuclear engineering, yes. It also happens to be a school for other subjects, but that isn't germane to the topic at hand.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome You wouldn't want to mess up the practical exam.
John27346 3 months ago
@John27346 You'd think I would be tired of "omg kaboom" jokes by now, but for some reason that wasn't bad. Cheers.
TithonusSyndrome 3 months ago