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Subject: Re: The Day After - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 01:51:44 EST
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ucbesvax!turner    Nov 16 15:30:00 1983

    /***** ucbesvax:net.politics / rlgvax!plunkett /  3:40 am  Nov 16, 1983*/
                                                               ...  It has
    been reported that the producers sought the opinion of nuclear-freeze
    advocates to better tailor the movie and its publicity to the politics
    of the left.  The method the producers have chosen for depicting the
    use of nuclear weapons will merely aggravate the fear we all have
    regarding nuclear war, without contributing anything at all positive
    to its actual avoidance and eventual removal of the threat.

This is confusing--what would this plunkett person have as a conservative's
depiction of the "uses" of nuclear weapons?  Happy families with enough
shovels?  Or a two hour film consisting of pan-shots over a system of
silos as they sat and deterred?

Perhaps the producers sought the opinions of nuclear-freeze advocates
because they needed technical information that other organizations would
not honestly supply.  Does plunkett-person sincerely believe, for example,
in Edward Teller's prediction that one plausible scenario for a nuclear
war involves the total defeat of the USSR, with near-complete economic
recovery in the U.S. after TWO YEARS?
---
Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)