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The Bulwark Podcast

The Day After: The Night My Father Scared America

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

ABC's The Day After, the 1983 drama about a nuclear strike on America, was the most-watched movie in television history. It had a profound impact on Ronald Reagan, and led to shifts in our nuclear policy. A.B. Stoddard tells the story of her father's role in changing the course of history. The Bulwark Podcast presents: The Day After: The Night My Father Scared America.

show notes:

A.B.'s article from November

Transcript

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I'm AB Stoddard columnist at the Bulwark.

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Americans used to live in fear of an imminent nuclear war.

0:38.0

Many families had bomb shelters,

0:41.0

and the word fallout was part of our vocabulary.

0:45.0

But in 1983, my dad helped change the course of history

0:50.0

with a television movie about a nuclear attack on the United States.

0:55.0

This is the day after the night my father scared America,

1:00.0

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