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It's an important movie. It created a real stir when it was released because it shows lots of horrible and disgusting things for the time. During the attack, you see a guy on a toilet, and you see a woman so scared she pees herself. There is a brief scene of an animal, possibly a dog or a cat, getting burned alive from the blast, etc. Then after all that there's depressing slow death to look forward to.
The movie uses a little bit of special effects compositing, stock footage, and cool editing during the attack scenes.
"The Day After" is really similar. Instead of stock footage they use special effects for the nuke scenes. They are TERRIBLE, but it somehow doesn't make it less horrifying. The Nuke scene in The Day After and Threads is much scarier than the nuke scene in Terminator 2 for example.
There's another movie I sort-of remember that was good. About some people stuck on a submarine after a nuclear war. They have to get from here to there, following a radio signal or something... I remember liking it but I don't remember what it was called or who was in it.
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