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From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
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Subject: Re: The Day After
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Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 02:50:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 02:50:50 1983
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Judging from the mail that I have gotten about 'nuclear winter,' it
seems there is a certain flavor of conservative in this country who
views any attempt at portraying the results of nuclear warfare in
human terms as a form of leftist propaganda.  I presume this is the
same crowd that labelled the Oscar-winning Canadian documentary 'propa-
ganda' as they tend to believe liberals tend toward the hysterical on
ecological issues as well.

I assume those who dislike the scenario in "The Day After" feel that
any attendant upswell in anti-nuclear sentiment generated by the film
will reduce the political commitment to nuclear weapons the U.S. needs
to stave off the Godless Soviet Menace, never mind the fact that there
may be nothing to stave it of *from* in a post-nuclear U.S.

For my own part, I tend to think the more information disseminated about
the consequences of nuclear war, the better.  If this requires trans-
lation from hard data into more readily assimilated pictures, so be it.
Unlike Europe, the U.S. has never had a technologically advanced war
fought on its soil or over its head.  If some sense of that can be con-
veyed to the people who may have to live with its consequences, perhaps
a more reasonable approach to living on this poor tired planet can be
developed.

					Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
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