Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers

Re:Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of vie... by ddmf on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:05AM (#36693952)

I'm from Wakefield in West. Yorks. In 1985 there was an issue with the early warning sirens near our school - it was harrowing and took a few hours to fix. Was the first I'd heard of "newkiller bombs" and as a 9 year old couldn't comprehend.

Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster.

I can understand why there was such a reduced want in nuclear energy, 40 years later though I wonder how things would be if we'd gotten rid of coal and gas sooner?!

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Re:Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of vie... by dspillett on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:31PM (#36698343)

> Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster.

'86 is the first year I properly remember. Challenger went boom while we were doing a big space project at school, Chernobyl went pop just as I was starting to pay some attention to world news, and Optimus Prime was offed on-screen. More than enough to sear the year into the memory of a young lad!

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Re:Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of vie... by sc0ttyd on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:50PM (#36698743)

Then the next year we had the Herald of Free Enterprise, and the year after Piper Alpha. It was a pretty scary time to be a young kid!

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Re:Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of vie... by dspillett on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:04PM (#36703842)

Piper Alpha made things all the more real, because we had family working out on oil rigs.

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