These losses would further deplete available supplies. Commercial stocks of food would suffer heavy loss. The whole mechanism of money transactions would be disrupted. The normal communication and transport systems would come to a stop and the inability to move food, fuel, and material would also stop ordinary social and economic processes. Direct damage would be concentrated near the points of attack but these are likely to contain about one-third of the population and about half the industry. An attack upon the largest towns with ten hydrogen bombs would totally disrupt the industrial and commercial life of the country. It would be quite unrealistic to hope to maintain anything like normal medical standards the chief difficulty would be to distinguish those who, in addition to having received burns or other injuries, had also been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation and who would therefore ultimately die, and on whom it would be wasteful to expend scarce medical resources. On the basis of an attack with ten bombs we also reckon that, in addition to casualties, a further 13 million people - many of them suffering from radiation sickness - would be pinned down in their houses or shelters for at least a week. note " Blast and heat would be the dominant hazard, accounting for more than 9 million fatal casualties against less than 3 million fatal casualties from radiation. The findings of the 1955 Strath Report noted that the UK was singularly vulnerable to a nuclear exchange due to the country's location, small size, high urban population, and dependency upon food imports. Set mainly in Sheffield during the height of the Cold War, Threads follows two families, the Becketts and the Kemps, amongst the other members of their town, as they deal with the absolute destruction of their society as a result of nuclear war with the Soviet Union (which at the time of release was arguably more likely than it is today).
The film depicts the terrifying consequences of nuclear warfare upon an unsuspecting world.
Britain has quite the history of post-apocalyptic fiction on its DVD and book shelves, and Threads is amongst the most disturbing examples.
Threads, a 1984 docudrama produced by The BBC, is the United Kingdom's answer to America's The Day After (which came a year earlier).
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