I think if you put an infallible weapon into man's fallible hands there is always a threat that something's going to go wrong. - Karen Meagher

It's hard to watch and it should be hard to watch. It should frighten people, and if it's done that, it's done its job.

I think Threads didn't keep people at arm's length, it drew people in because of the characters that everybody knew. I mean, we related to them, and that's what I think made Threads so visceral for people.

It was cloaked to a great extent in secrecy almost. [...] You knew what it was about, but the script was a close-kept secret I think. Not many people had seen it, and I think they were worried that it would go the same way as War Games, which was made but never seen, so it was all quite mysterious really.