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Subject: Re: The Day After - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 03:43:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 10 03:43:40 1983
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#R:tekecs:-325500:hp-kirk:15600008:000:1210
hp-kirk!daver    Dec  7 17:46:00 1983

     I have been on vacation and so haven't had a chance to put in my
     $.02 worth (ASCII has no "cents" character) about The Day After,
     but, having read and listened to all the hype and then seen the
     film I am puzzled about all the complaints from the "right wing".

     Fundamentally TDA made the statement that a nuclear war between
     the US and USSR is survivable, and, in fact, not that bad!  Sure
     some people whom the viewers have grown to like end up dead or
     dying, but it appears that a majority survive and the government
     starts the rebuilding effort even before the dust settles (in fact
     the whole concept of rebuilding society even looked tempting,
     a desireable opportunity).

     The film was much less frightening than any of many realistic
     films about life in Europe or the USSR during WWII, especially
     if you consider that in those cases, after the bombs stopped
     falling, the troops patrolling the streets were Nazi occupation
     troops, and the terror continued for years.

     Carl Sagan's "nuclear winter" was just about the only anti-nuclear
     segment to the whole evening.

					   Dave Rabinowitz
					   hplabs!hp-pcd!daver