In my opinion, the purpose of films like ["The Testament" from 1983] and "The Day After" was to inspire panic about nuclear weapons, so the american public would ask for their banning, while the USSR could keep up slowly arming themselves. As hollywood is basically a melting pot of liberals, it was not very difficult for the infiltrated soviet in arts and media to push for the realization of such films.
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Indeed. And you sound like some of the nuttier portions of Dr. Strangelove. You know, many people forget the sub-title of that movie: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Sounds like you got that part nailed.
If anything, "The Day After" was one of the most important movies ever made. Reagan saw it and it shook him to his core, and a few historians attribute this to his push for nuclear disarmament - scared him straight and away from more extreme escalation of the Cold War. I'm not saying that if "The Day After" was never made, we would have had a thermonuclear exchange, but it DID give Americans a clear, brutal idea of the sheer horror of atomic warfare - beyond the mere paranoia of the 1950's. And if you don't think Reagan's policies were ever influenced by movies he saw, you and I are clearly not talking about the same man.
@ScrappyB
If you look back through the history of film, art (painting and sculpture), television, and literature, you will find that artists and writers often produce works based upon the fears and concerns of the time.
The conspiracy angle is fairly recent though.
the purpose of films like ["The Testament" from 1983] and "The Day After" was to inspire panic about nuclear weapons, so the american public would ask for their banning
Uh, yeah? Or, you know, to bring home to Americans how terrible a nuclear war would actually be, even if at the end of "The Day After" there was a disclaimer saying that an actual nuclear war would be far worse than what was portrayed in the movie.
while the USSR could keep up slowly arming themselves.
You do know that all the nuclear arms treaties we've signed required both sides to reduce their stockpiles, don't you? And it's not like the Russians had piles of cash laying around to build tons of nukes anyway.
The commie attack is on its way, any minute mow. Pinko bullets will be winging their way to your guts for temporary storage. You need to have a hidden bunker where nobody can find you, least of all the Ruskies. Effectively, disappear from sight such that you might as well not exist. A win-win situation for all concerned I would imagine.
Make sure you have enough beans and toilet paper to last you several decades, you can recycle your toilet water. Learn how to boil an egg with nothing more than a bicycle pump and a thimbleful of fresh hailstones. If all else fails you can hang on for few days longer by eating yourself until there's nothing left, at which point you might as well give yourself up.
Yeah. Surprisingly, artists have been playing on the fears of the time for the last two thousand years at least.
Also, I have to love the automatic association of liberals with communists. It's like McCarthyism never happened.
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