I remember that movie well.

I have copies of both movies on disc and give them a re-watch every few years. I grew up not very far from Sheffield, site the first UK hit.

The film below is a 2005 BBC 'hypothetical'. Called 'End Day' it visualizes end of the earth scenarios. 55mins or so, so not a quick watch.

I tried all kinds of excuses to walk through the den. Don’t remember a thing about it.

I had an old black and white TV in my bedroom that I managed to tune it in on briefly without them knowing. That 20 minutes or so, in black and white, was too much. I think it was near the end with the "Gone with the Wind" scene of walking through wounded people.
I never have watched the whole thing.

He felt strongly that the culture in general did not treat the subject of war with the gravity it should. He felt they made war into a joke too easily (Hogan’s Heros/MASH) or some kind of glory trip with golden heroes and chiseled jaws.

He wanted to make sure I understood, it’s none of those things. We watched MASH, like most other families in the US at that time and dad laughed, too, but we were long disabused of the notion that it ever really scratched the surface of what war does. At least not until the final episode where the infant is smothered. That’s war. That’s what war is.

Based on Carol Amen's 1981 short story, "The Last Testament," the film tells the story
of how a small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after
a nuclear war destroys outside civilization.

You can watch it here:

without direct bomb damage---


Notable for one of Kevin Costner's earliest film appearances---
as the young father who had to bury his child who died from radiation--

'she'll fit into this'




and of course JANE SEYMOUR starring as the mother....

I'd forgotten that...

After that, everything else is less threatening by comparison. Still won’t shock me if it happens. That’s life.

I’ll check that one out.

Darker & even scarier than The Day After.

I got through The Day After with a bit of work, but Threads was truly terrifying. I think it was the slow step-by-step build up - it was horribly realistic. It gave me nightmares for a couple of weeks afterward.

That was the beginning of my long strange ride as an anti-nuclear activist, the embers of which still remained when I first signed on to Democratic Underground.

My mind had started to go a little sideways in late adolescence -- autism, a childhood head injury, PTSD, mild schizophrenia, I don't know what -- and I remember watching this movie with my sister who was pretty good at keeping me grounded. It would still be a year or two before I'd clawed most of my mind back.

I may have written a letter or two to Ronald Reagan which would best be lost.

In these modern days of terabyte hard drives and giant data centers I'm sure nothing is lost.

I watched the movie this weekend. I was only 5 when it came out, and I'd never heard of it before. It was very well done and terrifying, and did a great job of portraying the real human toll of a nuclear war. Especially framing in the first half how we are all just going about our normal lives with our normal problems.... the farmer who's daughter is staying out all night having sex with her soon to be husband, the woman about to have her baby, the doctor traveling to give a lecture.....

And then all of it is gone...... government, law and order, and literally safe air to breathe. All gone in less than an hour. And it really brings to life the truth of nuclear war, that the survivors will envy the dead. If I could be any person in this movie, it would be one of the persons vaporized on impact, who never even knew what happened. For the survivors, living in an irradiated world, there is no food, no water, hospitals helpless to provide care.

I think "fear of nuclear war" is something people don't think a whole lot about anymore. But it really should be. We should be thinking about who's finger we trust to be "on the button". Look at the stuff we are arguing about.... oil in Iran, money in politics, college affordability...... nothing compares in importance to making sure a nuclear war never happens. Even utter madmen like Putin and drumpf have not launched........ how much do we trust them to not do so in the future?

While I'd never seen this movie I remember being a teenager and watching the movie Crimson Tide, and they are talking about nuclear war and Denzel Washington's character says something along the lines of "there's no such thing as a nuclear war, only nuclear holocaust". That line always stuck with me about how horrible it would be. No winners, only losers, and the end of our way of life, forever.

I wish these weapons simply did not exist. No one person should have the ability to end the world with the press of a button. it is too great of responsibility and temptation. And too dangerous to risk that one day some crazy person will gain enough power launch.

will not save them or their progeny if these weapons are unleashed...


"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me"... Exodus 20:5 KJV

“Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.” Exodus 34: 7 KJV