I remember the ham-fisted "The Day After" miniseries when I was in highschool. It was the biggest TV event since the miniseries "Roots" in the late 70's (watch

I remember the ham-fisted "The Day After" miniseries when I was in highschool. It was the biggest TV event since the miniseries "Roots" in the late 70's (watch that and you'll never look at "Reading Rainbow" or Geordi La Forge the same way again). It was a super cheesy depiction of nuclear war and the days that follow. I was too young for the "duck and cover" drills of the 50's, but my generation (X) knew that global thermonuclear war (heh) had no chance of survival. Toward the end of the 80's and early 90's, fear of nuclear war tapered off after The Wall came down. In fact, Sagan was harassed by the GOP and Right-wing pundits for claiming that if Saddam burned the oil fields, we would experience a nuclear-winter around the equator. The 80's were nuts tho: Reagan & Gorby's nuclear standoff was pretty fucking insane in hindsight: mutually assured destruction is in the DNA of the modern right-wing movement. Jeez, even Sting wrote a #1 hit about it in 1985 using a melodic theme by Prokofiev. Those were the days?