"Wasn't it ABC who gave us "The Morning After" about a Soviet strike all across the USA? That was over 10 years ago."
"The Day After" was an ABC drama televised at precisely the time Reagan was fighting to introduce intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. And it was blatantly intended to influence public opinion on that subject. I remember Peter Jennings pontificating about the show on the Evening News, as though that made it important. The show was a complete bomb (no pun intended).
Ah, but we had RED DAWN and that made all the difference.