1/3 Threads Movie 1984 BBC Nuclear War Documentary Drama

A 30-minute Threads movie edit focused on the documentary aspect of the film.
Threads is a 1984 apocalyptic BBC nuclear war documentary drama. Centred on the industrial city of Sheffield in the north of England, it presents a grim vision of the likely effects a nuclear war will have on Britain and the planet. This video contains excerpts from the film documenting the US-provoked Russian invasion scenario that leads to nuclear war.
Tensions between Russia and the West escalate after a covert US operation to bring down the regime in Iran. Russia, which invaded Afghanistan in 1979, invades northern Iran. America responds to the Russian invasion by sending a rapid response force to protect US interests in the oil-rich south. A series of incidents cause events to spiral out of control leading to the use of tactical battlefield nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Shot on a budget of £400,000, Threads was the first film of its kind to depict a nuclear winter. A groundbreaking BBC documentary drama, Threads is:
"A film which comes closest to representing the full horror of nuclear war and its aftermath, as well as the catastrophic impact that the event would have on human culture."
Threads was produced in Britain a year after its contemporary counterpart, The Day After, a 1983 ABC television film depicting a similar scenario in the United States. Threads was nominated for seven BAFTA awards in 1985 and won Best Single Drama, Best Design, Best Film Cameraman and Best Film Editor.
Threads Movie 1984 BBC Nuclear War Documentary Drama
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[@DeniseFactor]

The most gripping, grim and depressing TV drama I have ever watched by a mile. Incredible piece of work.

[@corriemcnab]

I totally agree

[@alonenjersey]

I agree. this was a much better production than "The Day After."

[@orourkeda]

I was sobbing and wanking in the foetal position for days after watching this movie.

[@rooty]

You should watch Cracker lol

[@cv507]

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[@Scrapper.]

Still the ultimate horror movie, because the nightmare is entirely possible.

[@Hellndegenerates]

Nukes do not exist, 10 to 20 kilotons bombs only, like the moab bomb, it was a fear weapon only, the footage of supposed bombs was dynamite stacked up and blown up, Plenty of footage of the stacking of tnt.

[@camerondelamotte159]

bread and milk is over 5 bucks in australia war tax

[@vultusalbus4216]

The scariest thing is there were more warheads than ever in the mid-1980s. Sure present-day weapons are way more powerful, which means their effects impact an entire country. But atmospherical pressures create winds that may blow fallout back towards the origin of the warhead. Does anyone in the comments who happens to be an expert in science, physics or weather agree with my opinion, or do they have a different approach to it ? If so, may they feel free to let me know

[@cv507]

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[@vultusalbus4216]

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[@louwoods9278]

This scared the hell out of me in the 80s and still does today, even more so.

[@lifeistooshort-lj6yg]

I’m not scared

[@louwoods9278]

You should be! If this ever happens it's the end. I grew up in the 80s and this was a terrible threat hanging over us, it went away and I hoped it would never come back, but it has. I hope your courage doesn't crumble. 😢

[@CryingAutumn]

We are all going to die. Dark.. Dark days are to come. The entire northern hemisphere will be reduced to ash.

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

01:52 in this video ... Quote "Four people were killed today on the M6 motorway in Staffordshire When their car was in collision with a heavy tanker"... End quote THEY DON'T KNOW HOW LUCKY THEY WERE.

[@desiderious1]

This movie may be dated but it is still very accurate on how the public would react to the threat of nuclear war.

[@motionbrickvlogs.]

And that will never change for sure

[@ActiveAussie2024]

The public panicked at supermarkets for a very low level virus that was actually just BS, imagine the reaction in a real deadly crisis like this!

[@Feargal011]

@@motionbrickvlogs. The changes that have happened since 1984 have reduced the scale of a nuclear disaster: from about 66 000 nuclear warheads to around 16 000 in 2022 and command systems less likely to unleash a nuclear strike without confirmation a nuclear attack is occurring. That said, the UK is highly likely to suffer dreadful consequences, particularly if ground strikes follow first wave air burst attack. The horrors depicted in Threads warn us today that all nations should relinquish the possession and any use of nuclear weapons. Their possession and use would eclipse the Holocaust for unimaginable deaths and suffering.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@Feargal011 16,000 could easily end modern civilization on Earth though, couldn't they?

[@Feargal011]

@@danyoutube7491 Europe would be ravaged, and the UK probably would be destroyed. The mid-west USA would be blasted and heavily contaminated. Russia would lose virtually all its urban centres and known military facilities. China, India etc... dunno. There probably are not sufficient weapons to devastate any nations outside NATO+Russia.

[@frazerguest2864]

I’m from Sheffield, born and bred. I had to watch Threads at school aged 10. It scared the hell out of me then and it still bloody does now. Without a doubt, Threads is the most frightening and utterly depressing piece of filmography ever made.

[@louwoods9278]

My friend and I watched it at my house. We were 14. I had to accompany her back home and had nightmares that night.

[@Weird.Dreams]

No it isn't, get a hold of yourself woman! 👋

[@hub5343]

Threads really affected me. Never before had I felt the inevitable weight of people's hubris, ignorance and callous disregard to life by those who easily commit readily to war - and the dreadful hopelessness, despair and reprehensible consequences as a result. We have all witnessed the same rhetoric, the same escalation and the same dismissal of human life and livelihoods as depicted in this clip here. Sometimes I despair, when I realise those in charge of and have power over our destiny have the minds of children in adult bodies, playing games like children, thinking childish thoughts, never seeing the solutions behind those immediately presented, never seeing the incalculable suffering as a result of their actions.

[@seanknapton7449]

Politicians are evil and corrupt,the World would be a far better place without these dangerous fruit loops

[@garyparnell1327]

Never you worry WW 3 will not start like this trust me

[@ozzyphil74]

It will... It's upon us already... Any day now, nukes 😕

[@antispindr8613]

So how will a nuclear war start? Might it involve the Ukraine by any chance?

[@bacilluscereus1299]

Well said. In the USA context: It is just jaw-dropping the attitude of those who waggle the flag even more fiercely b/c the sociopath @ the top labels themselves a 'Democrat'. Saint Obama comes to mind. These people will take pride in their analytical prowess & make sure you know they have it, yet it's not on used/applied for the last coupla years or so.

[@alexanderforselius]

Meta's naming of their new social media app to 'Threads' feels chilling as we havent been so near the scenario depicted in this movie than now in 2023

[@yvonneplant9434]

Hmmm, talk to folks who actually lived during the height of the Cold War. There was fear of a nuke war all through the 50s/60s. It was omnipresent.

[@LauraS1]

@@yvonneplant9434 I lived through and during the height of the Cold War. I honestly don't think we were as in danger so much as the governmental hype around things made us think we were. Today? Yeah, today, we are skating on a knife-edge of "peace" much more so than during the Cold War, IMO. None of us in modern developed countries seem to have learned ANY lessons from the Cold War whatsoever, either. Humans have really poor memories as a species and a real talent for destruction.

[@retrowatches1655]

​@@LauraS1twat

[@Southern_Scenery]

Message boards call lists of messages 'threads'

[@Abacab965]

​@@LauraS1huh ???

[@CathyKitson]

Dang. I'd forgotten how bloody marvellous this film was.

[@JusticeAlways]

I'm waiting for a climate change disaster version to come out....should be exciting!

[@CathyKitson]

@@JusticeAlways If it was done as well as this, I'd be the first one to watch!

[@markrhoden68]

Purchased Threads on DVD a few days ago having not seen it for whats coming up to 40 years, imagine a 14 year old watching this in a time when tensions between East and West were so bad. I wonder how today's young people would view this if it were done in a similar fashion only with a more modern environment they can relate too

[@WaleedHiggins]

It's strange that no one has done a modern equivalent. They seem to remake everything else.

[@markrhoden68]

@WaleedHiggins maybe there's simply no appetite for that much..... real. As I said what with video games that look almost real and 24hr news war isn't as scary as it was to those of us who lived and remember the cold War and the fear that instilled

[@daleviker5884]

@@WaleedHiggins I don't see it as strange, because the purpose of these films was propaganda that ceased to be relevant. The Soviets were losing the cold war, their system was crumbling, they couldn't' feed their people yet they were pouring billions into nuclear weapons. These films (Threads, Day After) were made by communist sympathizers in the arts to undermine the will and strength of the West. Once the Soviets did collapse a couple of years later, the point of this propaganda disappeared.

[@WaleedHiggins]

@@daleviker5884 The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight now than it has ever been.

[@daleviker5884]

@@WaleedHiggins It's not closer in actuality, it's just defined that way by vested interests. The world is being run by woke governments who need to keep people under the thumb by scaring them. But anyone who was alive in the 1980s would laugh at the idea that things are tense these days.

[@davidclarke6658]

I remember my parents talking about the cold war in this period and how we would take off to our cabin in the mountains if anything happened. It was on the back of peoples minds with the nuclear arms race back then, hence these films being made. Now history is repeating itself, and I think this is more dangerous now.

[@utrapzab]

agreed, its 30 seconds to midnight at the moment, taking off to the mountains would only prolong your suffering though, an entirely human instinct (my plan was to head to the old nuclear bunker about half a mile from me) but the reality is survive the first few weeks, survive the blast, fall out etc, youd die of starvation, or civil unrest or most likely cancer, and as for what youd see, imagine the psychological effect of survival nah if there was a 4 minute warning id go and stand in the garden, the effect of the blast is quicker than the time it rtakes for your nerves to register the pain cheery stuff, have a great day🤣👍

[@Sugarmountaincondo]

Hope you still have access to that same cabin and keep it stocked.

[@LauraS1]

@@utrapzab Yeah, I agree with you there. I wouldn't want to live through this kind of thing. Thankfully, I likely wouldn't since I live very near the US Navy nuclear sub base ordnance storage depot where the nuclear warheads are kept and maintained. My area of the country is already ringed in military bases of all sorts so we're a pretty high profile target and would likely go in the first wave of attack.

[@NewRepublicMapper]

Hoping there would be a remake of Threads in 2023 to make everything aware in this time

[@pikachucetthesecond4296]

I don't think you need to remake it, it's still horrifying nearly 40 years later

[@AB-kx4ty]

Oppenheimer should give an idea too. Kids these days need to understand what nuclear weapons are and can do.

[@LauraS1]

To be frank, I highly doubt anyone in the US would care. We're more obsessed with fanning the flames of our own internal divisions to pay attention to something like this and its ramifications. We're also more obsessed with social media and the size of Kim Kardashian's ass than to pay attention to the very real danger that this is going to happen. I think it WILL happen eventually. Maybe not in our lifetimes, maybe next week, who knows, but it's going to happen. At some point, a leader is going to decide it's in everyone's best interests to start nuking the enemy (on whatever side things are on) and it'll be game on and game over for Humanity. I wouldn't want to survive it either. It'll be a brutal struggle to merely survive and billions will die; some from radiation sickness, some from being murdered over resources, others because they're in someone else's way, some from illnesses we will no longer have medicines to treat, and from starvation during the nuclear winter as our plants and animals will also have a massive die-off, too. Even with that, people seem to think "oh, it won't happen to me" so they don't pay attention. It's horrifying the amount of apathy to things like this there is in the US.

[@davidwright8432]

How much clearer do you think it could be made? Only the car and clothing styles have changed.

[@ElizabethMcDermott-cy4cv]

It's too crooked and they no longer value your survival. 😂 Think about the last few years. Write it all down like a list on a piece of paper. Then add it together.

[@insideoutsideupsidedown2218]

What I learned from “Threads” is towards the end of the movie. Those with guns determine who gets to eat.

[@johnharrison6745]

And, the British people have been 'relieved' of their guns by their government.....

[@roryl]

I think it's sad that that is all you learnt from this movie.

[@insideoutsideupsidedown2218]

@@roryl best of luck trying to get food

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@johnharrison6745 So, those who shoot each other get to eat.

[@tsunchoo]

Guns don't grow food - Farmers do that and killing people would simply mean less people to work out the infinite number of problems you would have to solve to survive in a world blown to pieces.

[@soylentgreen6727]

Threads is the only movie that genuinely scared me.

[@robambrose4199]

I won't go in the sea after seeing jaws when I was a kid. I might not have even had a bath since then?

[@Brian6587]

Very interesting with Iran being the flashpoint. Could have realistically happened at the time.

[@garyturner5739]

Definitely with the Iran Iraq War going on and the Soviets in neighbouring Afghanistan.

[@VanSisean]

"[Iran's] independence, irrespective of current Iranian hostility toward the United States, acts as a barrier to any long-term Russian threat to American interests in the Persian Gulf region." - Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisor under Carter, and advisor to LBJ, Reagan, Bush 41, and Obama), "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" (1998)

[@mr.sophistication3232]

It’s about to happen right now

[@Brian6587]

@@mr.sophistication3232 Great point. Hopefully not but the Middle East is near a breaking point it looks like.

[@FullPlaythroughs]

@@mr.sophistication3232 More so now

[@samholden4171]

My mum used to say if there's another war we all go together.She lived through ww2 and my grandmother ww1😢

[@christianprepper8084]

We're closer to day 0 now than ever before.....

[@mast3rchief536]

I work in a city and like a few days after I watched this movie with it still on my mind, an air raid siren went off. Think they were just testing it as there was a news article on it afterwards, my heart literally sank when I heard it.

[@Tekknorg]

The predecessor is THE WAR GAME and very gruesome too. A family burning in a car, burnt people killed wirh mercy shots, eyeballs melting... was silenced 20 yrs in Britain. 1965

[@valley_robot]

Interesting comment, I would like to watch that film, maybe like is not the best word

[@donaldwainwright]

I was serving in the army at the time I would not want to survive a nuclear war I pity the survivors

[@cathya9598]

Traumatised me for years after watching that as a young teenager

[@angelawinwood4019]

The teenage daughter studying while listening to classical music on her headphones is about to have her future ripped apart by something totally out of her control….. The dark side of being a teenager in the 80’s……

[@k_a_t599]

She is now a popular character in Coronation Street 😊

[@wleon4068]

The dark side of being human.

[@KEVWARD63]

I was 14 when I watched this in 1985 , fortunately by then , the late , great Mikhail Gorbachev grandually swept out the paranoid hardline old guard & it was the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

[@jacquelinewilliamson8933]

I remember this ,the bbc put out a news briefing and then showed threads .I. Live in N.Ireland and the troubles were still going strong. They made a an awful cartoon showing 2 elderly people being reduced to ash this was truly an awful time. Government leaflets came through our doors recommended to get under tables. After hearing an alarm.

[@rich_edwards79]

'When the Wind Blows', from the same guy (Raymond Briggs) who wrote Fungus the Bogeyman and The Snowman. Except that WTWB was most definitely *not* suitable for small children!

[@N30N_4U]

​@@rich_edwards79 It was at first, but then started getting darker and worse

[@kennymik1509]

This feels more like a collection of "real time" news reports than a "movie". Whoa!!!

[@notreallydavid]

One of UK TV's greatest achievements. Why no musical version, though?

[@AlisonBryen]

😂

[@rhuephus]

well ... I could talk to my good friend Andrew Lloyd Webber ... maybe he could come up with something ... (like Cats - the Nuclear Version)

[@doublebanana-de3dt]

Thank you for putting this together. I watched Threads I think 2 or 3 times, but the last time was maybe 5 years ago. It is haunting, but actually the terrifying part I find is the leadup which is this first segment you have made. The news reportage in this first pieces does make it seem very real (obviously the filmmakers effect) but to hear the radio and TV showing events in the Middle East has an uneasy echo with today 2024.... I also liked the pub scene they did 6:20 onwards - its very effective - when people watch the TV news and listen - it quitens down with the sobering news - then the pub owner switches the channel and then the pepole want to watch the news again!

[@BNCA70]

I heard Tomorrow's World starting on BBC in that house! That means it was Thursday night and Top of the Pops was on in half an hour!

[@derryjones1029]

😂you know it

[@djrichylaurence8991]

The casualty rate would be much higher these days due to higher yield weapons. I forgot Lesley Judd played the newsreader.

[@wleon4068]

Casualties would run into the billions. That was what was estimated recently, if nuclear war happens.

[@olafriedel2182]

I still remember the permanent fear - living 30km from the west/east german boarder - and the words my grandfather said "If something happens, promise me you don`t seek shelter because the people who are been killed direcktly are the lucky ones."

[@fives2155]

threads and the war game have genuinely traumatized me

[@charlesphillips1468]

Going to hell in a handbasket. I like how the film repeatedly focuses on the daily lives of the people, such as groceries, pubs, newspapers, getting to work. I was in high school in the early 1980s, I watched the Day After and many other nuclear war films (even Special Bulletin), but this was not on where I lived.

[@CLEFT3000]

Thank you! Looking forward to the rest

[@paulineclarke5388]

I recently bought the dvd of the full threads film, god it’s so depressing 😢

[@lucasa.quiroga1246]

In the time this movie was made (and the same goes for "The Day After") people lived under the nuclear threat. Now we realize that that world was far more predictable and stable than the one we live in today. Beyond their war rethorics, world leaders were much more responsible and there was a sort of "gentlemen´s agreement" between them. Today most leaders are little more than street gangsters, anyone may have a nuke and anyone may push the button.

[@ThehulkGreen]

YET NOT ONE CIVILIAN ASKED FOR IT.

[@garyparnell1327]

But on the same page Isreal will deal with Iran bet

[@frankcessna7345]

Very well said Sir and I totally agree….!

[@binder946]

They seemed smarter and well versed not like today's leader trash talking.

[@remus80]

Stop being a drama queen.

[@arthurbaldwin1804]

Oh for supermarket checkout prices like that nowadays.

[@N30N_4U]

Imagine how they will be close to a nuclear war now.

[@elchicano187]

Wow, thanks for sharing

[@evilmex1962]

9:14 as a russian i didn't even know we have surface-air missiles with nukes history teachers don't tell us so much

[@Tekknorg]

If russia launches ICBM against Britain, its 1.5 minutes warning time. By a russian sub max. 30 sec..

[@Sol-Cutta]

Why aren't u on the front line ??

[@evilmex1962]

@@Sol-Cutta because i wasn't mobilised. I guess, they don't need me.

[@jamesgornall5731]

Still do have nuclear air defence missiles, and nuclear torpedoes in submarines and nuclear artillery shells and pretty much anything else you can fire off into the air or across land or into the ocean

[@NeilCWCampbell]

You should be overthrowing your dictator in chief

[@jasonhand1742]

The way the crisis slowly but surely builds up and the way people start noticing it is so clever.

[@LauraS1]

You know, I think we're closer to nuclear war today than we ever were during the Cold War. I grew up during the Cold War and remember doing the nuclear attack exercises mandated in public schools here in the US (useless as we all now know them to be) and my parents didn't really shelter us kids from the exigencies of what was going on. They believed in educating us in the Cold War plus the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, both proxy wars between the US and USSR at the time. We are engaged again in a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine now, as well, but the stakes are higher since it isn't just the US and Russia who have nuclear weapons and who may choose to use them once the first shot is fired (nuclear shot that is). I truly think it's really only a matter of time before someone or an advisory committee thinks it'll be a good idea to actually use these weapons on "the enemy", whomever that may be, and I really do think it'll be game on around the world as countries settle differences or try to acquire territory. Civilians, as usual, will pay the heaviest price but that's war in general. Back then, there seemed to be a sort of unspoken agreement that weapons like this, although we had them, shouldn't actually be used. Sure, there was saber rattling and still is but today the rhetoric is sharper and much more aggressive and our leaders much different kinds of people than back in the Cold War. It doesn't help that politically unstable countries are also nuclear countries now and are kind of unknown players should a nuclear war break out. It's a genie we humans will NEVER put back into its bottle.

[@oreilly1237878]

It's now 27/1/23 ,90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday clock.God help us.

[@ohenekojo2561]

I feel like everyone around me is going mad for their support for escalation

[@robbibittybob20]

​@Ohene Kojo we need as much antiwar protestation as possible

[@wleon4068]

Especially with Russia and Israel threatening nuclear war against the West.

[@McDowallManor]

Remarkably scary given the current state of play in Ukraine.

[@nutyyyy]

Nothing will happen. Nuclear war didn't happen over Korea, or Vietnam, or Afghanistan. When pushed comes to shove, one side will back down.

[@GodBlessTheBaroness]

You can blame the war mongering goblin Zelensky for that

[@sickrantorum693]

@@GodBlessTheBaroness GTFO Vatnik shill

[@annethomas9302]

History repeating…

[@mr.evasion]

Somebody will have the last word. It's only human in the end....

[@charlottebowes7666]

@@mr.evasion Indeed.

[@johnroeii8352]

YES!!!! If things keep happening with Putin and King Trump getting their Communist, Terrorist and Nazi evil hands on a: Biological, Chemical, and NUCLEAR weapons??? Plus, used it at US????!!!!! Then, it's the end of the world as we know it!!!! Plus, in the words of Einstein about weapons of World War IV (4)???? Sticks and Stones!!!!!

[@Phantom_961]

Really brutal movie 😢

[@kitharrison8799]

What gives, OP? Did you have to cut the dramatic elements? Mick Jackson did superbly with a totally unknown cast. There's no doubt that Threads had a huge impact on UK consciousness of nuclear conflict and Reagan himself watched it.

[@Vlada988Bg]

Where to download this app?

[@stevengreen4620]

Me and my father watched that movie going way back I was 10 years old when The First I watched it it was on Cable Channel Superstation WTBS and a year later I watched it on KDNL-TV 30.

[@johnhuntmorgan142]

Its.....My Father and I....not me and my father.......sorry......

[@philipdru9290]

@@johnhuntmorgan142 Man, will you go out and pull your butt cheeks apart, bend over and insert your head. Then, fart!

[@cuauhtemoc8350]

Amanpour appears as the presenter in TV!

[@briantaylor9285]

It's happening now.

[@goldwing537]

The BBC did a film called The War Game in 1966. The top bosses said it would be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting, but it was shown at a few selected cinema`s. 1985/19 years later it finally ended up on TV

[@MrIncendiarydevice]

This would have been scary... Back when I was born...

[@robinhodson9890]

Thursday May 12th, corresponds to 1983, not 1984. A minor slip, indicating the film was originally intended for release the previous year.

[@welshcowboy306]

Eerie coincidence that James Cameron made the same mistake when me made the Terminator. 'Thursday' May 12th 1984 is the day Kyle Reese arrives from the future. (Which also depicts a nuclear holocaust)

[@regularguyrunning174]

Well done. That final scene is just terrible.

[@k_a_t599]

I'm in the UK, and had to use a VPN (USA connection) to find Threads in full on You Tube 🤔

[@Carl-Gauss]

The American president’s voice in the film sounds unsettlingly reminiscent of Ronald Raegan’s.

[@nuescht79]

Warum gibt es kein link zu den anderen beiden Teilen? Auch wenn es auf diesem Kanal "normal" ist, nicht zu antworten, würde ich mich freuen, diesmal ein zu erhalten

[@AradSP]

Happening now

[@JakubPyrachewsky]

Kirov class sustaining damage from the collision with a destroyer 😂 nice story, bro but the mass difference is ranging between 7 and 20 times between those two.

[@pongolowpill8596]

Came to watch this after that demon 79 ending

[@nathancoleman8413]

This is like American movie "The Day After"which was made the year before this(1983)and had also aired in Britain

[@garyturner5739]

I wonder if anybody will screen this chilling drama again on network tv. Mind you given the present situation I don't think so.

[@robert-hh2ft]

as of this last week i would watch this again just to be ready for what will happen soon

[@plxton]

Then you missed the point, there is no way to be ready for what would happen

[@rooty]

The things change, the more they stay the same

[@johntreherne4611]

No one panic buying toilet paper

[@Curi0u50ne]

Do you know what shocked me most about the dock your film is the advanced looking jet aircraft that they’re using Even in 2023 they don’t look amiss, I remember as a 3year old kid being scared shitless by low flying jets from raf Driffield in 1972!

[@grahambuckerfield4640]

That’s a F-4, prototype flew in 1958, entry UK service 1968, last RAF ones, seen in the film, retired in 1992.

[@johnnls94]

It starts off slow people don't listen to the news

[@TheLordIsMySheppard-bx1jo]

If America only listened to Patton

[@benbow7]

They had to silence him very quickly.

[@scottmatheson3346]

yes, if only they had prompted the ussr to spread all the way to the english channel, i'm sure that would have resolved things.

[@WaleedHiggins]

Threads Blu-ray: amzn.to/3lbPYPH American superfortresses started using Lake Biwa northeast of Hiroshima as a coastal rendezvous point towards the end of the War. The city's air raid sirens had been sounding false alarms almost every night for weeks. Hiroshima and Kyoto were the only important Japanese cities that hadn't been visited in strength by "Mr B" (America's B-29 bombers). Hiroshima was reserved for a special demonstration and the people waited anxiously. B-29s had started making regular reconnaissance flights and the "yellow-alert" siren had become a morning routine. On the night of 5 August 1945, Hiroshima’s sirens wailed as two hundred B-29s approached the city from the south. People evacuated to their “safe areas” and waited for the napalm firestorm. The terror bombers roared overhead and then passed on heading north. People returned home but another warning wailed soon after midnight. The yellow alert sounded around 7:00 and the all-clear followed as an American reconnaissance plane approached from the south. People headed to work and thousands of school children gathered for morning work details helping to clear fire breaks in the lanes and streets. A lone B-29 passed high overhead at 8:15 and detonated a uranium bomb 1900 feet above the city. Two hundred thousand people were burned, blinded, disembowelled, irradiated and buried in rubble as the city crumbled beneath the nuclear flash, blast and shock waves. A turbulent column of heat, dust and ash rose miles into the sky shrouding the city in darkness. Neighbourhoods and streets were transformed into an unrecognisable wasteland of total destruction. Dazed survivors scrambled over mounds of wreckage and muffled voices screamed from the rubble. Tens of thousands descended on the city’s hospitals and the few remaining medical staff were overwhelmed. ‘More than 80 per cent of the city's doctors and nurses were killed in the explosion, their hospitals levelled or severely damaged. There were few medicines or painkillers. The shockwave tore through the Red Cross Hospital: ceilings and partitions collapsed; windows blew in, showering everyone with glass ... patients ran about screaming.’ Paul Ham, Hiroshima Nagasaki, 371 Ragged, gruesomely injured people filled hospital corridors and crowded the streets where many were vomiting from radiation sickness. Scattered fires grew into a conflagration and the hot air swirled with burning showers of cinders. Panic gripped the city and people herded into the corpse-filled estuarial rivers. Others fled to the blackened parks and huddled alongside the dying as they moaned, "Mizu! Mizu! - Water! Water!” Black radioactive rain fell from the mushroom cloud. Three days later, Mr B detonated a plutonium bomb above the Urakami Christian district of Nagasaki. America was now a nuclear power that ruled the sky and the world was shocked and awed. Britain handed leadership of the global capitalist system to America at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 and British imperial sterling was superseded by a truly international world reserve dollar regulated by the IMF and World Bank. Bankrupt Allies, West Germany and Japan fixed the exchange rates of their currencies relative to the US dollar which, in turn, was backed by a mountain of gold. US dollars were then shipped overseas as part of the Marshal Plan funding postwar reconstruction in the shadow of the Cold War. The Soviet Union became a nuclear power in 1949 and, by 1955, both the US and USSR had detonated a hydrogen bomb. Atomic bombs release energy through nuclear fission but thermonuclear weapons are driven by fusion reactions: the process that powers the sun. Hydrogen bombs can produce large multimegaton yields thousands of times more powerful than the "Little Boy" Hiroshima bomb and now represent the prevalent type... America built the first nuclear weapons during World War II and used them against Japan. Today, several nations are nuclear-armed including North Korea, Pakistan, Israel and soon perhaps Iran. The distinctive mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion lifts fine particles of dust and ash high into the stratosphere blocking light and reddening the rising and setting of the sun. As well as radioactive darkness, a thermonuclear war would also produce huge volumes of ozone-destroying nitric oxide further lowering global temperatures and plunging the planet into an extended nuclear winter. Please click like, subscribe, and turn on notifications. It really helps with channel growth. Thank you! This channel is not monetized. All ads are run by the copyright owner. Last Messages: amzn.to/42kbEdV

[@bacilluscereus1299]

Thanks. So many people in need of a reality check. Instead they have steeped themselves in national chauvinism, xenophobia & middle class hysteria.

[@mrdarren1045]

Nagasaki was targeted as it was japan's only Catholic city.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

More died in the fire bombing. I don’t suppose that matters though.

[@thewaryears]

What do you want ? The War ended.

[@bushcraftandastronomer.3775]

Now Russia is the nuclear super power of the world and Putin now has Satan 2s nuclear misiles that cannot be detected by radar. Russia duren 90s had 45 thousand nuclear weapons to usa 25 thousand. America are scared of Russia and USA know Russia is a threat in a way. 1962 soviet Union and usa were on brink of a nuclear war and it should shows how world was in fear. It'll take 100s of trillions trillions trillions of nuclear weapons to match the sun's total energy just for 1 second. Goverments don't care who dies in nuclear war and nuclear weapons will end life on this world and nuclear weapons will remain the biggest threat to life. World knows what will happen if usa or uk attack russian forces. Ukraine leader wasted his time going to the Vatican where Pope francis is and Pope Francis says I'll pray because Pope Francis doesn't care about ukraine and suffering. Pope Francis only cares about h8mself and protecting his paedophile church. Ask Pope Francis is the world goverment leaders telling the truth about the multi trillion industry of Cancer! World needs hope against the biggest threat. Ukraine needs help now! Ukraine 🇺🇦 is against Russia invasion. Put8n will fire if he doesn't get ukra8ne and ukraine should be a free country but world leaders can't do anything. Nuclear war will happen and its just a matter of when? Putin is just wanting the soviet Union back and going about it the wrong way. President Kennedy and his Russian counterpart didn't really want that nuclear war 8n 1962. World just needs to wake up to the biggest threat of nuclear weapons!

[@LeeManchester]

I remember this in 1984 I was 8

[@user-it6br5qv2q]

Damn, global war really does suck. Let's hope we never have another one. This one could/mostly likely would be the last!

[@seattlecathey9710]

Sounds familiar doesn't it?

[@iancoles1349]

When it gets to 90 ms to the witching hour I may stock up on some soup.

[@reatvsocialmedia]

POV: It’s early March 2022

[@markc17]

IMDb says the film is 1:52, not less than 30 mins

[@MrDaveyboy125]

I have this on DVD. This film has been cut to pieces on here.

[@davepowell7168]

A new version with the contemporary information technology now inseparable from todays youth would have greater impact perhaps

[@AB-kx4ty]

These were some of the films of my childhood. Another is When the Wind Blows and The Day After - we grew up in the shadow of the Soviet bomb. Maybe these films should be shown to the current crop of clowns in the Russian government as they seem to freely throw around nuclear threats every day as if somehow they can win a nuclear war. Maybe they've forgotten what thermo nuclear war would mean for Russia....

[@Sentrix6]

When the wind blows is an underrated masterpiece. It’s a shame not many people know of it

[@GeneticHumanX]

Oh dear God its set in Sheffield..... my nearest target city. . . Its reputation preceeds it with this film I'm on bloody tenterhooks now..... nearmind..... we'll go through this together.... will somebody old me and?

[@stephanielaurenbounds4958]

LOVE the BBC 1 newswoman’s hairstyle. ❤️❤️❤️

[@thewaryears]

The pubs had TV, why wasn't Benny Hill at 6:38. It's 1984.

[@antispindr8613]

But did not BBC One 'Go NationWide', followed by Look North, South, East, West (or whatever local news)?

[@thewaryears]

@@antispindr8613 Benny Hill was aired in Canada.

[@bushcraftandastronomer.3775]

All world goverment leaders should watch this film and see what could happen if they all press that nuclear button. It's the only war this world has never had and it could happen any time!

[@54321Ripley]

God this is depressing 😢

[@honestmcgyver]

This and the US similar movie ‘the day after’ from the same era also about a nuclear war should be shown now in light of current world events. Right now we’re sheep bumbling around without a clue about what’s going on re Ukraine, China and NK

[@annethomas9302]

Over and out…

[@karadan100]

The Daily Mail was 33p in 1984!!

[@janetkealy3685]

£1.10 now in 2024

[@thewaryears]

My dad's birthday was May 29.

[@garyturner5739]

Mao said 'power comes out of the barrel of a gun.'

[@derryjones1029]

To use nuclear weapons is pure insanity i cant see the use in them even if u attack first your still getting ablitarated just as much as who you have attacked its basically impossible to use them with out suffering the same emount of damage

[@Johnconno]

At least Crewe gets vaporised.

[@notreallydavid]

Expect reduced train services and rail delays.

[@corriemcnab730]

Wrong radioactive snow on the line...

[@rnorthey4008]

Even in the logic of this movie, the reason why the Americans are involved is because they keep repeatedly involving themselves?

[@richiehoyt8487]

Not that it's particularly relevant to the subject of this film, but Sheffield; the U.K's fourth largest city - really?! I know that comparing 'like' with 'like' when it comes to comparing statistics of this kind is notoriously difficult, cf, is one comparing what is within the official city boundary, the entire 'built - up' area, the metropolitan area, what? and what of contiguous towns, like in this instance, Rotherham? And so on; but still - fourth? I think all can agree that she comes behind London, Birmingham and Manchester, and though I don't know what the census figures are, I should have thought she was comparable with Liverpool and Bristol, but bigger than Leeds or Glasgow? No, I just can't see it...

[@Imp5011]

Once it's all over be sure to thank military personnel for their 'service' and for making it all possible.

[@katieblackmore2004]

What is worrying..... This all sounds very familiar, building in the exact same way, and ANY sane leaders with sense.... would step away from the parapet and engage in talks not war. But you have Russia, that wants back the old 'USSR' You have Ukraine saying ''You won't take our land'' You have Putin saying, ''lets talk peace but we keep what we have taken'' You have NATO telling Ukraine ''Say no'' Ukraine closing down peace talks with Russia Putin saying ''don't escalate things further And NATO basically saying ''F Off'' So with a bunch of ego maniacs in charge, how the hell can the situation in Ukraine, not come too this?

[@WaleedHiggins]

It's funny how history has a habit of repeating itself. The current situation with the West facing off against Russia and China is similar to when the West faced off against Germany and Japan, except now they all have nukes.

[@nutyyyy]

In the same way that it didn't over Korea, or Vietnam, or Afghanistan. Or when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary or Czechoslovakia and many more. Neither side actually wants this to happen. Winning in Ukraine isn't worth guaranteeing their own destruction. Even for Putin and Russia.

[@scottmatheson3346]

yeah, those ukrainians, such egomaniacs for not wanting to be conquered by a totalitarian regime.

[@augustsoomre4795]

Pauluse esimene kiri korintlastele 15: 45 Nõnda on ka kirjutatud: „Esimene inimene Aadam sai elavaks hingeks.” Viimne Aadam sai vaimuks, kes elustab. 46 Kuid esmalt ei ole vaimne, vaid maine, siis alles tuleb vaimne. 47 Esimene inimene oli maast muldne, teine inimene oli taevast. 48 Milline oli muldne, sellised on ka muldsed, ja milline oli taevane, sellised on ka taevased. 49 Ja nii nagu me kandsime muldset kuju, nii kanname kord ka taevast kuju. 50 Aga seda ma ütlen, vennad: liha ja veri ei või pärida Jumala riiki ega kaduvus pärida kadumatust. 51 Vaadake, ma ütlen teile saladuse: meie kõik ei lähegi magama, aga meid kõiki muudetakse, 52 äkitselt, ühe silmapilguga, viimse pasuna hüüdes, sest pasun hüüab ja surnud äratatakse üles kadumatutena, ning meid muudetakse. 53 Sest see kaduv peab riietuma kadumatusega ja see surelik riietuma surematusega. 54 Aga kui see kaduv riietub kadumatusega ja see surelik riietub surematusega, siis läheb täide sõna, mis on kirjutatud: „Surm on neelatud võidusse! 55 Surm, kus on sinu võit? Surm, kus on sinu astel?” 56 Aga surma astel on patt, ent patu vägi on Seadus. 57 Aga tänu olgu Jumalale, kes meile võidu annab meie Issanda Jeesuse Kristuse läbi! 58 Niisiis, mu armsad vennad, olge kindlad, kõigutamatud ning ikka innukad Issanda töös, teades, et teie vaevanägemine Issandas ei ole tühine.

[@RustyDumptruck]

Silence

[@peterjohnston2196]

Has Grant Shapps watched this?

[@paulnaylor062]

Not a Muslim in town. How times have changed.

[@TheZabinqp]

We are getting closer annd closer tward nuclear war

[@Alibo400]

No, that’s what they want you think ,

[@halberderdier8073]

Not really. Putin very cold-blooded. He is trying to achieve things with threats mostly.

[@alisaeed-ht9sq]

No independent media to tell the truth. Poor public have to rely on Corporste media.

[@henrynasal7682]

Better than the movie!👍

[@SF-pq3sq]

Still possible 2024😊

[@paulcrisp9861]

It certainly makes you wonder 🤔 where the Ukraine 🇺🇦 war is leading against Russia 🇷🇺, we are already unofficially at war with them. Lord help us all through this 🙏 insanity. Feb twenty three 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@timdyer5903]

Ruzzia is waging war against Ukraine and for years has been attacking Europe the US and UK through political interference and buying.

[@MrGoneTroppo]

Which Video magazine, all the cool kids read it