![]() The latter imagined, in terrifyingly realistic detail, the effects of a nuclear war on the inhabitants of Sheffield. However, the 1980s were the absolute heyday (if you can call it that) of nuclear-nightmare drama, with Hollywood movies such as The Day After and War Games, Troy Kennedy Martin’s masterful thriller Edge of Darkness (addressing concerns about Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars programme), and the BBC drama, Threads. It’s almost enough to induce a sort of nukes-nostalgia in anyone old enough to have been watching television in the 1980s, or, for that matter, going to the movies 20 years earlier, when the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis gave us films such as Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove. ![]() And Years and Years hasn’t been alone in its atomic angst, Sky Atlantic and HBO’s justly acclaimed mini-series, Chernobyl, recreates the disastrous 1986 explosion at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant. ![]()
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