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Sorry, I haven't watched the film, but it's interesting to see how much of an impact it had on people in the uk. Looking at it from a geopolitical point of view

Sorry, I haven't watched the film, but it's interesting to see how much of an impact it had on people in the uk. Looking at it from a geopolitical point of view at the time USSR was (economically) at the brink. They were failing in Afghanistan _hard_. Countries like Poland were harder and harder to control. The only option for USSR to survive was to convince the West they _will_ nuke everyone if they go down. In this context I'm very interested if we ever find out exact circumstances that led to the decision to air this film at 9.30pm on Sunday and not in a late night slot mid-week it would seem more appropriate for. Also, how did the BBC choose to make this particular production etc. Call me paranoid, but I don't think it's a far off stretch of imagination to assume it didn't "happen by itself". I wonder, had a majority of Americans watch films like that before they voted Ronald Regan in for a second term, would they vote for him?

ta1243 3y ago
> had a majority of Americans watch films like that before they voted Ronald Regan in for a second term, would they vote for him? Well they watched "The Day After", 39 million households, during his first term. One of the people watching was an ex-actor who said it was "very effective and left me greatly depressed", who then used his position as commander in chief of the US armed forces to make the Joint Chiefs of Staff watch it, and then that president turned around and managed to get the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty agreed. One wonders what would have happened had Walter Mondale won in 1984. Would he have been as affected as Reagan? Would he have managed to persuade a traditionally hawkish conservative chiefs of staff? Would he have been able to persuade the Russian leadership?