Join us online for a screening of "The Day After," followed by a discussion led by experts. This three-hour free public event begins on August 6th at noon U.S. Eastern Time. Here is the start time in a lot of time zones:
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"The Day After" is a U.S. post-apocalyptic film that first aired
on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. A record-setting
100 million people watched it in the U.S. - and 200 million on Russian TV
during its initial broadcast.
The film postulates a fictional war between NATO forces and the
Warsaw Pact countries over Germany that rapidly escalates into a
full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet
Union. The action focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and
Kansas City, Missouri, and of several family farms near nuclear missile
silos.
Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan watched the film more than a month
before its screening on Columbus Day, October 10, 1983. He wrote in his
diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear
war." Maybe this film can still change hearts and minds! Join us to find out!
We
will have a short welcome on Zoom at 12 pm EDT, and then watch the
movie from 12:05 pm to 2:10 pm EDT, followed by presentations and a
question-and-answer period with our experts, Vicki Elson of
NuclearBan.US and Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.
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Other Exciting Upcoming Events:
August 9: GLOBAL ALERT: Canada, Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty! Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day 77th Anniversary Commemoration
August 10: Discuss the movies! Cautionary vs. Visionary Tales
August 17: Meet Jeff Daniels, the award-winning producer/director of "Television Event", a movie about a movie!
August 24: Meet "The Day After"/Star Trek Movie Director Nicholas Meyer
August 31: Meet Susi Snyder from ICAN and Don't Bank on the Bomb
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