Posted 17:03 by Grote 0 comments

"Two men standing waist deep in gasoline -- one with three matches, the other with five."

Twenty years ago today. A TV movie called "The Day After" was shown on ABC. This article from the Lawrence, Kansas(where the majority of the movie was filmed) goes into very good detail about the movie and its after-effects. I've never had the opportunity to see it, and I'm not really sure that I would like to, but I don't really know. What's most fascinating about the movie that it actually had an effect on the Reagan administration. Nicholas Meyer says in the article "When he signed the Intermediate Range Weapons Agreement at Reykjavik (in 1986) with Gorbachev, I got a telegram from his administration that said, ‘Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did.'" What's sad today is that in 1983, the two superpowers looked at this film and said "We can't let this happen." If a terrorist saw this film today he'd probably say "Perfect."