First broadcast in 1984, Threads has only been repeated a handful ... "When we grew up in the 80s we lived with the threat of nuclear war," she said. "It has suddenly become poignant again ...

Threads, written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, was created to outdo its American counterpart, The Day After, which the filmmakers believed softened the horrors of nuclear war.

Feature length TV film Threads tells the story of a nuclear strike on Britain through the eyes of two families, tracing the ...

We all need to listen to the survivors of nuclear war, and support their quest to rid the world of all nuclear weapons.

As global tensions escalate amid threats of nuclear war from Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, Newsweek has looked at the impact of a Russian nuclear weapon on various U.S. cities and their ...

At the top of the spiral stand the preparations meant as deterrents. At the bottom stands all-out nuclear war. The descent — in the language of nuclear war, an escalation — is shaped by grave ...

A map shows the countries that would be safest from the effects of famine caused by nuclear war, according to a specific simulation. With conflicts all over the world showing no sign of coming to ...

Amid fears of a possible nuclear war, some countries have updated their civil preparedness guidelines. The war in Ukraine has just edged up another notch. It has not been going well for Ukraine in ...

This suggested to some that some kind of nuclear war was edging closer. So why are some nations worried and some apparently much less so? Optimism bias is the tendency to overestimate the ...