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A whole set of pictures, some of them grizzly, taken from the film. Most of them are ones that are memorable to anybody who has seen Threads, for example the woman with the stark stare holding the dead baby.
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The opening titles of the film, with Sheffield in the background.

The Kemp family (Jimmy's family)   Jimmy and Ruth, as she reveals that she is expecting a baby   The Beckett Family (Ruth's)  

Clogged motorways as people try to flee to the relative safety of the countryside, when the conflict worsens  Milk being delivered as normal on the morning of 26th May - Only minutes before Britain is attacked.  

 Power lines are blown by the energy pulse, from a warhead exploded at high altitude over the North Sea  The first bomb to explode near Sheffield is an airburst over RAF Finningly.  This is how the detonation first appears, and is only on the screen for around 2 seconds.

Jimmy and a friend crouch to avoid the blinding light from the RAF Finningly bomb  The explosion seen from Sheffield.  In this shot, the cloud grows in size, in complete silence, and all that can be heard is the screaming.  Mrs Kemp, as a bomb airbursts over Sheffield. In this shot the screen brightens, before cutting to shots of objects combusting in the heat.

Milkbottles melt in the heat of the blast  Building explode in the Sheffield blast  Another bomb, possibly the groundburst at Crewe, which eventually causes immense fallout problems

A man burns in the firestorm, caused by the Sheffield bombing.  This is one of many shots in a scene lasting around 1 minute, which shows the amount of devastation caused.  This is a pile of rubble, coated with fallout from the bomb.  In the centre is a mans head, and he is surrounded by rats.  A disturbed woman, who sits in a devastated street, cradling her dead baby in her arms.  This is seen as part of a long sequence in which Ruth walks the streets and sees many aspects of the devastation.

Mrs Kemp lies dead, from dehydration, in the family fallout shelter.  She has suffered immense radiation burns, and was sufferinf from dire radiation sickness  Crowds gather outside a location, where food is being stockpiled.  The only way food can be attained is by working in order to be rewarded with it.  Guards have to shoot people back with gas pellets.

Ruth's reaction to the devastation as she wanders the streets.  A man is operated upon in a makeshift hospital.  The establishment is deprived of electricity, as well as drugs and equiptment, so anaesthetic is out of the question.  He must bite a rag to dull the pain.

All Pictures were taken from the film, and these only represent around half of the film.  I was unable to attain any pictures depicting events which took place more than about three months after the attack.