North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland.

If you were listening to the State of the Union this week, you may have heard, under the bit about North Korea, a drumbeat to war.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. This week we look back at another moment in our history of nuclear fears,

immortalized in the movie the day after.

Major Reinhardt, we have a massive attack against the U.S. at this time, ICBMs.

And then we are deploying them as well.

And so everyone located near these missile silos is watching them come out of the

ground. And to me, in some ways, it's the most haunting images in the film are seeing these missiles

going up into the air and people looking at them.

And a playwright ponders how we might remember a Simpsons episode in the months, years, and decades after a nuclear incident.

All coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Friday, as we were finishing this hour, deadline bearing down,

the House Intelligence Committee released the much-anticipated, I could say, infamous memo by Chairman Devin Nunes,

who had to recuse himself from his committee's Russia investigation because of improper contacts

with the White House right from the start.

Anyway, if you listen to the show, you probably know the news,

and you already know the broad outlines of the Republican case, which I'll put in the form of a question.

If, that is if, and it's hotly disputed, the steel dossier written by that British spy,

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