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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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.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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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Replying to @baseballcrank @varadmehta
Also, true thing: MTV was saturated with images of nuclear war
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