Threads “After all, what acte gratuit, what vulgar outrage or moronic barbarity can compare with the black dream of nuclear exchange” Martin Amis, Einstein’s Monsters Threads (1984) is a television film that went against the grain of the medium itself, one of its very rare masterpieces, and one impossible to watch and be left unshaken. The feature-length drama portrays the build up to a nuclear attack on Britain, the attack itself, and its