AKSHULLY, fear among kids of nuclear war was a real thing and psychologists measured. cc @varadmehta
It wasn't just The Day After. Living in a world of bomb drills and "run home to die with mommy and daddy" did a lot of that.
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Hence the 50s vs 80s. In the 70s/80s we didn't have the drills or the fallout shelters. Just the Doomsday Clock and No Nukes concerts and bad TV movies.
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I was an 80s kid and I remember being terrified of nuclear war. I even wrote to President Reagan about it. It as part of a class assignment where we had to write to the President about an area of concern, and that was the topic I chose.
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Yeah, but nothing compared to the late 50s and early 60s. I can remember two times in all of school where we did the nuclear attack drill and everyone was laughing about it (my school was directly next to FORSCOM HQ at the time. We figured we were toast no matter what.)
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Even Reagan was affected by The Day After. From his diary: "It’s very effective & left me greatly depressed."
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