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Aug 26, 2015 · Even the relatively goofy post-apocalyptic thrillers of the '80s hinged on the devastation of nuclear war. In 1979, Mad Max roamed a desert wasteland in a world destroyed by nukes.
Dec 4, 2023 · Movies. Movie News. Apocalypse Then: 40 Years Ago, A TV Movie Saved the World from Nuclear Annihilation. ABC’s 1983 film 'The Day After' — the subject of a new documentary as well as a book —not...
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Nov 21, 2023 · Rather than depicting World War III, Stoddard honed a vision for a character-driven drama set around the mundane lives of Midwesterners with little fear of nuclear Armageddon, aside from the Air Force bases and missile silos that dotted the landscape.
Mar 15, 2018 · Before Nicholas Meyer's made-for-television film The Day After had its official airing on November 20, 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan and his Joint Chiefs of Staff were given screening copies....
Nov 15, 2005 · Iraq's history with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons is a long and winding path that eventually ended in an American invasion of the country. In between Saddam Hussein's rise and...
Feb 11, 2016 · On the evening of November 20 1983, 100 million Americans settled down to watch Nicholas Meyer's made-for-TV film The Day After. The film’s focus was a familiarly normal community in rural Eastern Kansas in the lead up to, and aftermath of, nuclear war.
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Dec 23, 2021 · What would everyday life for survivors look like if we could strip it of the ideological obfuscations of the nuclear imaginary of the Cold War? This chapter explores the tensions of survival in near-future speculations about life during wartime imagined through realist, often oppositional modes of writing and filmmaking.
