On November 20th, 1983, The Day After premiered on ABC.
The movie coldly and methodically showed us what the aftermath of a nuclear exchange would be like.
More than 100 million people tuned in.
The movie even aired in communist Russia 3 years later during negotiations with the US for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
The movie so moved President Reagan and other lawmakers that it may have helped to facilitate the eventual signing of the treaty.
 |
| Steve Guttenberg |
Also on this date:
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving premiered in 1973
