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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Feb 2020

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Varad Mehta

    Not in quite these terms, but they were definitely written around the time of The Day After.https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1226874266165161985 …

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    Varad Mehta @varadmehta
    I was alive in the '80s and I don't remember stories like this about the anxiety of nuclear war. Maybe in the '50s and '60s? At any rate, they probably would've been just as nonsensical as this idiocy about climate change anxiety is. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/10/overwhelming-and-terrifying-impact-of-climate-crisis-on-mental-health …
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      2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 10 Feb 2020
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        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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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Feb 2020
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @varadmehta

        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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      1. Adam Bonin‏ @adambonin 10 Feb 2020
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      1. Suburban Bumpkin‏ @jenifer39 10 Feb 2020
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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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      1. Dean Clark‏ @earldean71 10 Feb 2020
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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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      1. PJ Doland‏ @pjdoland 10 Feb 2020
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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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