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Subject: Re: RE: The Day After - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 07:29:46 EST
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isrnix!akp    Nov 17 19:08:00 1983

I doubt strongly that anyone takes issue with the idea that ONE nuclear 
warhead (or ONE multi-warhead strike) is survivable). Check out Japan --
people still live there. I believe that "the day after" is based on a single
strike (within the necessary area -- around Kansas City).
	Rather, the conservatives object to the fact that the film dramatizes
the effects of a strike very graphically - from Ground Zero to fifty (?) miles
away. They feel the film will show people the true horror of "what if... the
conservative plan of nuclear superiority fails to deter?"  That is not the
purpose of the filmmakers (that is, the politics) -- they are just out to
dramatize the effects. That the conservatives are so concerned that the
(potential) truth be known indicates how thoroughly their position is based on
ignorance of the risk they are taking with our lives.








	Boy, isn't rhetoric easy? I don't feel all THAT strongly about nuclear
weapons/war/conservatives, but the words just seem to flow sometimes.


							-- allan pratt
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