Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
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I let me son watch it. He was 10. Some people were absolutely furious that I exposed him to that fear. I said he is old enough to die in an attack, he is old enough to know about it. I did end up feeling bad, though, because a couple days later he asked me in a small voice if we were all going to die in a nuclear attack. I told him probably not; we need to keep working to keep that from happening anywhere. It worried him. I felt bad, but part of me still thinks he had the right to know.I watched this last year just to relive the memories of youth. I was a young lad when this movie was on TV, I remember watching it with my family and at the time, considering how afraid everyone was of Russia and nuclear war, yeah it was a sobering moment.
When you can sense your parents were uncomfortable watching it, it has an effect on you. Back in 1983 there were far fewer channels and only a few prime ones, ABC, NBC and in Canada we got WUTV which is Fox in Buffalo. So when a movie was promoted as this one was as Made For TV, it was a big deal. Teachers and kids at school talked about the movie the next day.
Even president Reagan was moved by the movie, so it had an impact fair greater than it's quality or even it's accuracy. He apparently decided to try and make peace with the Russians after seeing it, and if I'm not mistaken it was shortly after the U.S almost had a real nuclear situation if not for Petrov in Russia doing he right thing and not retaliating to a false alarm from their satellite.
Scary time indeed. Especially when consider the world was at the mercy of a foreign nation that was quickly becoming technologically a laggard, but they possessed such massive atomic power.
I do like your reasoning. I spent 8 years in Strategic Air Command around the bombers, tankers and Minutemen. The hardest part of it all was trying to stay motivated. Being at war when you are peace is just as hard as being at War. But we were ready in a seconds notice. What people don't understand, we also trained in the Aftermath. Pick up the essentials and move to somewhere yet to be determined. Once there, set up a base to recover whatever AC should return and turn them, repair them, etc.. We also mobilized the Hospital since they are going to be extremely important for not only returning crews that may be hurt but also the Civilian Populance. And we were armed meaning, we became the Sheriffs to keep order in both Military and Civilians to prevent society from turning back to the Stone Age. When faced with death, starvation and cold, the only difference is that Civilized Man needs to be reminded that they are still civilized. Side not: Anything we didn't take with us went up in a Mushroom Cloud.