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Is it time for a 21st-century version of 'The Day After'?

  • Written by Marsha Gordon, Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University

It’s beginning to feel like the 1980s all over again.

Already this year, we’ve seen Donald Trump tweeting provocative nuclear threats about North Korea. A terrifying (but false) incoming missile alert set Hawaiians on edge, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned (and then postponed) a nuclear attack preparedness...

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