Re: Threads
> "... it is a great way to explain what the fears were in the early 80's."
I was actually a ten year old living in Sheffield when I saw Threads. My dad was into walking and we knew the hills too, from the really ugly bits.
Grim it was, but then I'm not sure if it undermined MAD or not, Sheffield was about as commie as a city could be at the time, they'd have welcomed a soviet invasion with open arms, so no real need to nuke it.
There's even a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_South_Yorkshire
Jeremy Corbyn eat yer 'eart out.
To my mind we need a conventional force that our enemies will be worried we might actually deploy, above a nuclear force which we "might", "maybe", "perhaps" or even "never".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
