re: #40 mmmirele

Reagan saw the film “The Day After” and wrote in his diary that it was “very effective” and left him “very depressed.” I remember there were a couple other films that came out around the same time (“Threads” and “Testament”) in 1983-84. I remember being far more impacted by “Testament” than by “The Day After.” I guess because it was how it made clear that even if you survived the nuclear attack, the aftermath was just going to be horrible for months and years to come. (“Threads” was also that way.)

Indeed. The night I watched Testament, when I tried to sleep*. I thought about what I would do if I were to survive**. Things like, I’d have to kill my cats rather then let them starve, then head off, probably on foot, up to San Francisco where the Not-Yet-Mrs. FBW lived, to see if she survived, because she would be the only person within 3000 miles I really cared about.

As these grim thoughts ran through my head, the wall above my head suddenly lit up. I about had a heart attack before I realized it was just the headlights of a car turning the corner out in the parking lot!

*After THAT movie? Yeah, right!

**In San Bruno? With Treasure Island, Mare Island, and Alameda NAS, and San Francisco all so close by? Again - Yeah, Right!