688 On The 8th Day

First  viewed :  24  September  1984

This  documentary  followed  on  from  Threads,  explaining  the  science  on  which  it  was  based.  Scientists  across  the  Cold  War  divide  (  including  Carl  Sagan  from  Cosmos )now  agreed  that  the  devastation  caused  by  a  nuclear  exchange  would  throw  up  so  much  dust  it  would  block  out  enough  sunlight  to  cause  a  drastic  drop  in  temperature  sufficient  to  make  the  whole  planet  essentially  uninhabitable,  the  "nuclear  winter".  This  would  impact  on  people  nowhere  near  the  military  targets; the  Shropshire  town  of  Ludlow  was  used  as  an  example. Grim  stuff.