Watching The Day After on AMC. It was scary when it first came out. It's scarier now.

[Kajun Gal]

[Anon-C]

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[Delarage]

2. I remember watching that as a tween....

And practicing Civil Defense Drills in school. And all the stockpile comparisons (USSR v. USA). Scary sh$#

I guess it won't be Russia nuking us, since we are now a subdivision.

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[dewsgirl]

3. +1

[roamer65]

4. Watch BBC's "Threads" from 1984.

The Day After was actually toned down to be a limited nuclear exchange. Threads was not and shows what life is like far after it. Threads could almost be a lead up to Orwell’s 1984.

[samir.g]

9. 'Threads' was scary as hell.

[Kajun Gal]

10. Just watched the trailer. I pray this never happens!

[benld74]

5. Office story the next day after it's first showing

People talking about the movie of course
What they would do etc

Question came out
What would you do if you knew you had 20 minutes before the middles hit?

One guy says
I’d get the wife and make sweet love one last time

Dead silence

Then from the back of the office
The voice says
Yeah
But what would you do for the remaining
18 minutes

Loud laughter followed

[xmas74]

6. I live less than ten miles from the base

In the movie. Sufice to say,my town is gone,according to the show.

It can be a bit spooky at times, knowing there are still plenty of functioning silos in the area.

[Va Lefty]

7. Yes, I was in college when "The Day After" aired

Most people were moved. "Threads" would have made them crap themselves. I don't think it was shown in the states for 2 or 3 years and than not to a National audience.

[Ilsa]

8. PBS has a 2 hour documentary called Command and Control.

A nuke in a silo in Arkansas was damaged during an inspection in 1982, I think. The Air Force was crapping in their pants, afraid it was going to explode and wipe out middle America. It was an excellent program if you can find it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. Here ya go

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/

[Grammy23]

12. I remember the hype leading up to The Day After and vividly recall making sure

we watched it. I was haunted for days afterwards. I knew it was going to be scary but thought it would be like most sci-fi movies — kind of hokey and cheesey with far fetched special effects. Boy, was I wrong. It literally scared the bejeebers out of me because it was so realistic. It made it all seem so real. So possible.

We are in a very dangerous place right now with a mad man in the White House who will poke a stick at a snake to “show it who is boss”. And there are madmen around the world capable of inflicting that kind of pain on the world. So it is all too real that we could face the scenario played out in that decades old movie.

[Hela]

13. Testament?

Does anybody remember the movie, Testament, with Jane Alexander and William Devane?

That one hit home for me much more than The Day After. The scene where Kevin Costner is walking down the street in a daze with a dresser drawer to use as a burial box for his baby really got to me at the time.

[Ilsa]

15. I just read the long synopsis on IMDB.

Terribly depressing stuff, but probably realistic.

[Ilsa]

14. They made a big deal about it in the tv show, The Americans.

The illegal Soviet spy couple watched it with their family, as did other families in their perimeter of friends and acquaintances. It was well-acted and the fear was palpable. Excellent episode.

[dsc]

16. I live in a town with a large air force base

and in the 1960's we nearly got nuked by accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash