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Old 08-02-2013, 05:23 AM  
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I saw that TV movie as a teenager - it was chilling to watch what a nuclear attack and its aftermath would actually be like for a typical American town. I think the setting was Lawrence, Kansas. yep, just wikpedia'ed to make sure.

Ronald Reagan watched the movie and in his biography said it left him thoroughly depressed and changed his attitude on the nuclear arms race - led to the signing of a non-proliferation pact with the Soviet Union.

Lots of the footage in that trailer of the nuclear explosion is real footage from some of the biggest American nuclear tests. Those killed immediately would be lucky in a nuclear attack of that size, surviving would be a fate worse than death.
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