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Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
The Divide (2011) – survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – a black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War and the threat of nuclear warfare
Countdown to Looking Glass, a 1984 Canadian TV film that used simulated news broadcasts to chronicle a Cold War showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Day After, a 1983 TV film about a nuclear war and its effects on the Midwest U.S. Threads, a 1984 BBC film inspired by Academy Award-winning docudrama The War Game.
Shutdown is the state of a nuclear reactor when the fission reaction is slowed significantly or halted completely. Different nuclear reactor designs have different definitions for what "shutdown" means, but it typically means that the reactor is not producing a measurable amount of electricity or heat and is in a stable condition with very low reactivity.
The issue was worsened by leaders referring to B-52 sorties as "nuclear strikes", [48] by the increased use of encrypted diplomatic channels between the US and UK, [49] and by the nuclear attack false alarm in September. In response, Soviet nuclear capable aircraft were fueled and armed ready to launch on the runway, and ICBMs were brought up ...
The reactor stack explodes from the pressure before the operators could manually open the valves to vent steam, leading to a full nuclear meltdown. The explosion led to most of the crew being killed or injured. Jae-hyeok, who is one of the injured, hauls out several of the injured workers until he collapses from nuclear radiation poisoning.
The film is divided into two main segments. The first section of the film is a dramatization of a sneak attack by Soviet Union nuclear weapons against the United States.The premise of the attack is based on Soviet nuclear submarines approaching the United States West Coast and launching a barrage of missiles at ICBM silos and B-52 bomber bases, and other Soviet forces manage to destroy a ...
As the countdown to the missile attack continues, the men and women try desperately to convert a supply truck into an impromptu bomb shelter. [2] As time goes by, the deputy's behavior becomes irrational and the film ends with the deputy trying to enter the closed-up truck where the others have sheltered just as the nuclear strike happens. [2]