The Day After

The Day After is an American TV-movie aired in 1983 on the ABC network. The film presented a theoretical situation which led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, and its consequences as felt by residents of Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. The film was written by Edward Hume and directed by Nicholas Meyer.

See also

• Threads (BBC, 1984)
• Testament, a 1983 PBS American Playhouse film showing life in a small California town after a nuclear war; the town is undamaged by the attack, and the film has almost no special effects; the emphasis is on the attempts by the characters to survive after the war.
• The War Game (BBC, 1965)
• Nuclear weapons in popular culture
• Warday by Whitley Streiber and James Kuselka is a novel that takes a pseudo-documentary look at the United States, five years after a limited nuclear war is fought between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Although only a few cities are hit in the exchange, America has been turned into a Third World country because of the effect that EMP had on its technology.
• Amerika, a mammoth mini-series about life in the United States ten years after it has been occupied (peacefully) by the Soviet Union.
• Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois, an alternate history novel about the United States in 1973, ten years after a nuclear war was fought between it and the Soviets over missiles in Cuba. (For the record, the United States won the war.)
• The role-playing game ' positions the player characters in Central Europe in the midst of a conventional World War III that turns into a limited nuclear war, creating a breakdown of government and civil order.
• Arc Light by Eric Harry is a novel that sets forth an accidental limited nuclear exchange between the U.S., China, and the Russian Republic, followed by a conventional U.S. - European invasion of Russia.
• By Dawn's Early Light is an HBO film about an accidental nuclear war between the U.S. and Russian Republic.