This article (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/31/japan.nuclear.suicide/inde x.html?hpt=hp_t2) made me think of this movie. Is it possible that in the movie everyone else died long before the elderly couple? Like maybe the only people left in the world after the first few days were over 60?
Kind of makes this movie even more depressing...
Well I doubt the entire World were wiped out - just those closest to the core of the bomb.
I've always wondered if the UK managed to fire one back in time!
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It was the 80s the main delivery method was vulcan bomber they would have tookoff and dropped bombs on the resprctive targets those who survived the mission would have came back to smouldering ruins.
shareAlso we had Polaris (which Trident replaced) and they could strike from deep underwater and from remote areas of the world so the chances are the U.K would have fired something back.
I think the film also concintrates on Polaris being the British weapon because the cut away where we see the submarine that chapter is called "The British Submarine".
...and I am not sure but Cruise missiles from the U.S may have still been here 1986.
Does the UK even have nuclear weapons at all?
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Yes. Lots of them.
sharehells yeah the U.K ANS U.S.A
shareA meagre 200 warheads compared to a half a dozen thousand in us alone. The uk is likely to catch friendly fire and be entirely destroyed if it ever decides to use its tridents.
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Vulcan pilots were told to keep on flying until they ran out of fuel and then settle down with a nice Mongolian girl, because there wouldnt be anything worth coming back to.
shareAfter just seeing this, I'm quite convinced the author's intention is that the UK did indeed fire back, as did pretty much everyone else ensuring destruction to the large majority of the world. I think this is what the morse code "MAD"(Mutual Assured Destruction) that pops up at the end implies.
shareGood observation, thanks for your input as I hadn't noticed that before.
It's rarely the people at war, it's the megalomaniac leaders at war.
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Yep, not unlike how it was depicted in "Threads"
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Imho, I think the Bloggs survived not because they were old with cells slower to divide, but because they were far enough away from the initial blast, though as we can see, their home wasn’t so lucky. Nuclear weapons are locational - either you’re in the blast zone, the shock wave radius, the down-wind path - or far enough away to not be impacted. But, when you really think about it, the Bloggs really didn’t survive; they just survived the initial blast event. Their home suffered burning and wind-shock damage though not evidently severe structural damage; they were in the shockwave radius, and in turn, suffered from the initial radiation dispersal evidenced in the home. So no, their age didn’t matter, because they ended up dying from the radiation eventually some days later, along with other neighbors in their area downwind from their blast.
shareThey didn't survive. They went out in two days instead of two weeks and were suffering the early stages of radiation sickness. They both died but the film as shocking as it is wasn't go to that far as showing them dead.
shareThey didn't survive. They went out in two days instead of two weeks and were suffering the early stages of radiation sickness. They both died but the film as shocking as it is wasn't going to go that far as showing them dead.
Any ideas where you can buy this? Usually when the wind blows I'm in bed and the dog leaves as it smells so bad.