To: Unassuaged
Nah...it was whole "nuclear winter" scare that came to dominate the 1980s, with movies like The Day After, convincing people that no one could survive a nuclear war, no matter where they were in the world.
50 posted on
03/17/2008 5:31:46 PM PDT by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
“Nah...it was whole “nuclear winter” scare that came to dominate the 1980s, with movies like The Day After”
The movies started way before then, remeber “On the Beach” from about circa 1960?
111 posted on
03/17/2008 7:17:20 PM PDT by
Nakota
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Yes, right around the time I went to college, I was told repeatedly that the world would end in my lifetime.
I behaved accordingly.
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