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From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.tv
Subject: Re: "The Day After"
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Date: Thu, 17-Nov-83 01:11:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 17 01:11:48 1983
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What, pray tell, is the "liberal/left" delirium that "The Day After"
leans toward?  What would a "conservative" portrayal of a post-nuclear
world be like?  What method would a more conservatively oriented film
use to depict the use of nuclear weapons?  When I listen to military
strategists talk about nuclear confrontation and limiting civilian
casualties to the (pick your number) millions, I get a sense of players
at a board game putting tokens into the "deceased" bin.  It is high
time, if this is in fact the case, that people stopped dealing with
nuclear weapons as chits in a game and began dealing with them as real
and dangerous implements.

Both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R have sufficient nuclear hardware to
destroy the earth several times over.  If the TTAPS simulations are
correct, neither side has to even come near their targets to accomplish
this.  At what point does this buildup of nuclear weapons avoid nuclear
war?  At what point do we "avoid the problem and eventually eliminate
it?"  I see no signs of anyone in power, Soviets or U.S., making any
moves toward this end.  When I do, I may become a little less emotional
abbout this issue.  Until that time, it is unlikely that any teleplay
could aggravate my fear of nuclear weapons beyond the point it has
already been aggravated by the recent foreign policy directions in the
U.S.

					Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
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