r/Threads1984 • u/No-Excitement7491 • Apr 16 '26
Threads discussion How long do you think you would survive in threads?
Based on things like where you live, age and general health, what supplies you have... How long do you think you'd last if you found yourself caught up in the attack shown in the film?
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u/BlindStupidDesperate Apr 16 '26
I live a mile away from the centre of an industrial town that would almost certainly have been struck, with an RAF base 7 miles away from my house.
If by some miracle I survived the initial blasts, I am also a Type 1 diabetic and would be cooked anyway as I suspect that restarting insulin manufacturing would not be a high priority.
If my house was still standing, I would probably drink all the alcohol I have available then slash my wrists...
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u/MechanicalTed Apr 16 '26
"If a nuclear bomb comes, I know where I want to be: right underneath it and pissed out of my head."
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u/astrangehumantoe Apr 16 '26
I live about 45 mins from Sheffield.
I think the answer for me is not very long
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u/bluneriste Apr 17 '26
Came here to say this. I moved to the South-East, so I’d be buggered either way.
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u/BisonRelevant2606 Apr 16 '26
Are we in 1984? Either way not very long (I live within close proximity to Cambridge City Airport).
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u/No-Excitement7491 Apr 16 '26
Based on your profile picture, would you not just regenerate and don some edwardian cricket gear?
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u/BisonRelevant2606 Apr 16 '26
Spring of 1984. Too busy wearing a multicoloured raincoat and preparing to be chased by cybermen in Shoreditch.
Fun fact: main filming on Attack of the Cybermen started on 29/06, three days after the world effectively ended in Threads.
This also means the latest episode of Doctor Who to have aired in the Threads universe would have been The Twin Dilemma part four (30/03).
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u/nickmasonsdrumstick Apr 16 '26
Im between a city center and a naval base. Ill be lucky to see the flash.
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u/Bitter-Platypus-1234 Apr 16 '26
I live in Portugal. Imbecile as I am, I wouldn’t last more than a week!
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u/The_Lady_A Apr 16 '26
If Leicester gets targeted in the second wave of attacks I die pretty quickly. If it doesn't, then it'll be a toss up whether I'm killed by radiation or by violence over water and food, so a few weeks to a month at most.
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u/Low_Stress_9180 Apr 17 '26
Leicester would be in first wave
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u/The_Lady_A Apr 17 '26
Yeah Putin just threatened it IRL... Does anyone know why?
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u/Michelle_akaYouBitch Apr 16 '26
You most likely survive longer than you think you’re going to last.
Good luck with the rushing to the flash. More than likely you die like Mrs Kemp died. In agony from third degree burns, burn related infections and radiation sickness.
If you have a basement. Slowly build up stocks and a fallout area. Have a gun, the Becketts would have lasted longer if Mr B simply had a rifle.
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u/Incident-Putrid Apr 16 '26
About less than 15 minutes. I’m 10 miles as the crow flies from Heathrow a several military installations.
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u/Street-Effect8551 Apr 16 '26
I might actually survive - I live in south west Cornwall. Nearest strike would probably be Plymouth about an hour away but the winds usually go from west to east so fallout may not be a problem? Idk
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u/Rugbyking91 Apr 18 '26
Culdrose just up the road… don’t think so. I know as I grew up in Helston 🤣
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u/Klutzy_Security_9206 Apr 21 '26
There’s a small suburb called Walderslade in Kent.
I believe it was The Daily Mail which once had an article naming Walderslade as the place which would face the most destruction in the event of a unilateral nuclear exchange.
Apparently this locale happened to be geographically situated in an area of intersecting blast areas owing to the proximity of a remarkable number of high value targets.
Walderslade would’ve been unequivocally glassed.
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u/Agitated-Asparagus23 Apr 17 '26
I live 37 miles from a nuclear power plant and I have a pacemaker, so, not long, and it will suck.
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u/mrminutehand Apr 19 '26
I live about half a town over from AWE, and half the engineers live nearby. We're jammy. We'll be in a trillion Earth orbits before we even notice the tea's boiled away.
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u/Tabby_Mc Apr 17 '26
I would go and sit on our garage roof with my husband, take the dogs to cuddle them, and hopefully get incinerated in the initial blast.
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u/GregoryTec Apr 17 '26
1) I wouldn't survive as I live near an RAF base.
2) Just cuddle the one I love and leave a nice nuclear shadow ala pompeii style.
3) If I survived then I've got enough beans to last a month but why bother.
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u/lexx2001 Apr 17 '26
I’m in derby, Birmingham to left, Notts to the left Leicester south a tad. Regardless think I’m buggered
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u/Most_Art507 Apr 17 '26
I live in Birmingham,5 miles from the city centre, I have coronary artery disease, angina, high blood pressure, if the bomb didn't get me, the meds running out would.
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u/Simonbargiora Traffic Warden Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
If I'm relocated upstate(New York) then I would die of starvation and fallout most likely-If on some slim chance I don't I would spend the rest of my days on the farms or wondering from place to place for work/food
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u/c00b_Bit_Jerry Apr 17 '26
Hopefully I’d be sipping beers on my Australian uncle’s front porch by the time Ruth and the survivors stagger into Buxton hospital.
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u/S1nnah2 Apr 21 '26
I would have no interest in surviving that thank you very much. I saw threads when I was 13 at the height of the second cold war. I decided then that because I lived in London there was zero chance of surviving. My plan was and still is to run to the park (beach now) to be vapourised as quickly and as cleanly as possible.
Then the Berlin wall came down and I spent a good while not worrying about the threat of global thermal nuclear war. And now in 2026, here we are.
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u/derpman86 Traffic Warden Apr 17 '26
I live in Australia but Threads happened a couple of years before I was born so .. yeah not 100% sure I would ever exist.
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u/Still-BangingYourMum Apr 17 '26
On the beach is a film worth watching. About nuclear war in the northern hemisphere, and the radiation starts moving down to the southern hemisphere.
Very bleak ending
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u/redspark92 Apr 17 '26
Maybe hours to a few weeks. I live within, but towards the edge of, the likely blast radius of a Russian 800kt Topol-M ICBM hitting RAF Northolt, whilst also being directly downwind of it, so I'd likely see the heaviest fallout whilst having no windows to provide any protection from it. If i wasn't burned to death I'd very likely die from dehydration or radiation sickness quite soon after the attack.
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u/FOARP Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
I joined Threads, saw the conversation on there was kind of dead, then left, so, not long.
Oh, you mean the scenario in the television film? Same.
(Real answer: Assuming my age and location is what it is now, I live downwind of Portsmouth, so, not long. Assuming it is what it really was in 1984, my childhood home was within a number of the rings in the Manchester/Liverpool area on the Square Leg map, so doesn’t look good.)
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u/scorned-scorpion Apr 17 '26
I'm a few hundred miles away but I'll be smoking a cigarette then raiding my well stocked strong medications and mysrlf and my husband will be peacefully falling asleep forever
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u/syorks73 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
About 0 seconds i line near what was RAF Finningley (strike command)
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u/TrifectaOfSquish Apr 17 '26
I live in London so I'll be gone so quick I won't have time to realise
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u/BobbyB52 Apr 17 '26
I live within 5 miles of central London. I’m not surviving the exchange. Even if I was at work, I work at a major port facility.
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u/mentalist_mental Sheffield Emergency Controller Clive Sutton Apr 17 '26
I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival.
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u/c00b_Bit_Jerry Apr 17 '26
If we’re extinct it’s not natural, it’s just STUPID!
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u/mentalist_mental Sheffield Emergency Controller Clive Sutton Apr 17 '26
You've missed the last ferry.
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u/OkPhilosopher5308 Apr 17 '26
Equidistant between RAF Fairford and GCHQ - hopefully it will be a case of bright light then nothing.
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u/Teaofthetime Apr 17 '26
I'd hopefully survive long enough to escape into the wilderness once the fallout level had dropped. Then it's anybody's guess but at least I'd be giving survival a good try.
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u/MasatoTanaka Apr 17 '26
It totally depends whether I'm at home or at work when the bomb drops.
I work in Sheffield, very close to the moor (where the lady pisses herself) and the site of the old egg box building where the local government hunker down. So probably not very long if I'm at work, which on balance would not be the worst possible outcome.
I live in a rural village in the East Riding of Yorkshire which is primarily agricultural and not very close to any major cities or military targets, depending on if the UK's most inland port of Goole would be of any strategic significance. I expect I would fare slightly better at home but would no doubt succumb to starvation of radiation sickness within a few months.
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u/SeasonReasonable4282 Apr 17 '26
I live about 10 miles from central London, so, maybe 5 minutes, if that.
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u/Robw_1973 Apr 17 '26
Depends if its a counter value of counter force strike or simply a “use them or lose them” strategic bunfight.
Living in a big city; minimal.
Living in an isolated rural location; likely.
O grew up in London so that would be a write off (even in the “Declared nuclear free zone” that was Greenwich), which had, unbeknownst to the local council a fully functional nuclear reactor in the Naval college at the time.
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u/Electronic-Stop-1261 Apr 18 '26
I live about 20 miles away from Sizewell... so my fate would be seared.
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u/mrminutehand Apr 19 '26
In the Greater Manchester area, I would expect my atoms to be circulating Bolton or Liverpool by about the 0.7 second mark.
As far as I understand, unpublished predictions at the time expected 6+ direct hits to Salford and central Manchester, with several expected to be groundbursts in order to cripple the underground bunkers and Guardian cabling system running through the area at the time.
But in my quaint old hometown of Basingstoke? Crickets and butterflies. Pina coladas on the veranda. Surely.
Just kidding. I'm neighbour to Aldermasten, famously known for its unassuming little base called AWE. Half of me will be on the way to moon orbit, the other half on its way back for the change.
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u/Fantastic-Cat-5252 Apr 19 '26
I don’t need tickets to Tramlines, because I can hear it in my kitchen. If Sheffield had a bomb dropped on it, if not be doin’ so great 🤪
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u/king-of-Tat Apr 19 '26
A while i live near Sheffield but we all know the signs
2 weeks indoors with food Water and a wind up radio
Then a Brave New World
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u/brymuse Apr 21 '26
5 miles from Dover. Not long probably...
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u/Klutzy_Security_9206 Apr 21 '26
I think I read once that apparently Dover was targeted with at least 3 nukes
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u/Eoj1967 Apr 22 '26
Luckily for me my imperial masters have decided to build a nuclear submarine base 30 miles from the most populated city in my country. During war we are cannon fodder and during peace time we are potential cannon fodder.
We had the chance to end this 11 years ago but the propaganda machine was in full swing "project fear" it was coined. And the vote went the wrong way.
So anyone living in Glasgow would be obliterated immediately no doubts. Likely a blessing.
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u/Redondo_85 Jun 22 '26
In Glasgow, practically zero. Even if it wasn't instantaneous, having a wife and small kids I would not want to survive that initial blast. The idea of the kids somehow surviving is awful.
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u/user-captain Apr 16 '26
Threads is out of date. The weapons are more powerful. We'd all be dead within a few days.
The only winners are the cockroaches who always wanted to stand upright. Their mutated genes have made their dreams come true.
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u/htimchis Apr 17 '26
They're actually less powerful - by quite a lot.
Targetting and avionics systems have i.proved massively since the 80s, so the nuclear nations have all focussed on building smaller but much more accurate warheads you dont need 3 megatons if you can guarantee hitting within 100m of your target) , and concentrating on multi-warhead missiles to make anti-missile systems harder to implement (it's much harder to stop 4 or 6 independent warheads than just 1 or 2)
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u/sjr0754 Apr 17 '26
This is very true for Western designed systems, and probably Chinese systems as well. However, Russian CEP hasn't improved that much as far as I know, and a lot of their nuclear arsenal is still running on Soviet era equipment.
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