The film ends thirteen years after the war, where society has only recovered to a tiny fraction of what it was pre-war. It had basic electricity once again, but not much else.
What do you think would have happened in the decades after the film concludes, say fifty years later?
Would society have gotten gradually better, or worse?
Surely it would depend on when the war ended .If only Sheffield was nuked life would continue elsewhere in Britain after a fashion.
shareIf only Sheffield were nuked, the film would not end the way it did. Threads clearly depicts a global nuclear war and while it may not have been absolute - with every weapon used - it was probably pretty extreme.
There would be no help from the areas of the world that were not nuked. Those areas would have suffered varying fallout and the effects of some degree of nuclear winter - the truly vast fires would lead, minimally, to reduced harvests worldwide.
And no country that was just getting by, in the aftermath, would be in a position to offer aid to the (mostly) Northern hemisphere countries that were truly devastated.
But, in fifty years... Maybe a colonial olive branch from the comparatively well off (mostly) Southern hemisphere would be forthcoming. Warships from South America would likely be around to make sure that trade relations with the North favor their part of the world. And, fifty years would be time for the ruined North to have re-established something like a 19th century level of life.
The entire planet Earth would explode in roughly 20 to 30 years after an all out nuclear war.
shareIt depends how much of the world had escaped heavy losses/damage. If any developed countries were still able to manufacture and had infrastructure/transportation. But then what about coal or oil?
Also, how much knowledge the survivors had. Any experts to help rebuild/redevelop, and educate others.
Read the book Ridley Walker, which takes place about 1000 years after a global nuclear holocaust. Civilization is basically stuck in the Middle Ages.
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