This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Heres how The Day After got made CNN
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- “The Day After,” a two-hour epic following a few weeks in the lives of small-town Midwesterners before and after a nuclear strike, was one of the most controversial and most-watched TV movies when it aired on November 20, 1983
- More than 100 million viewers tuned into its original broadcast, more half of the country’s adult population at the time
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