The Day After

[Kim Taehyung]

I watched this movie made in 1984 called The Day After about a nuclear bomb explosion in Kansas City. What would you do if this were to actually happen?

 

[Lady Cazzeh]

I have this film on DVD, and I must admit, it does make you think.

I dont know what I would do in a nuclear explosion. Probably go underground and wait for it all to pass possibly.

 

[QuickSilverD]

I didn't see this movie and I don't live in Kansas, Could anyone care explaining the plot in more detail?

 

[Kakashi Hatake]

I think I've heard of this flim.

If a nuclear bomb was to happen, I'll just hide away.

 

[Lady Cazzeh]

It is the mid-1980s. An aggressive Soviet leadership orders troops marched to the border of West Berlin, and then decides to invade West Germany with multiple armored tank & troop divisions. In Lawrence, Kansas - on the border with Missouri - a family is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter, and Dr. Oakes (Jason Robards) is keeping busy in his role as chief of surgery in the small University Hospital at Lawrence. These people go on with their daily lives but are drawn closer to the possibility of a nuclear war, as the Russians use a nuclear ballistic missile against a West German city, and then attack a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. The Americans strike back by hitting a Soviet ship, and then the Russians hit NATO regional headquarters with a nuclear warhead! People start creating makeshift fallout shelters in their basements, but many are caught off guard when, 1 at a time, nuclear missiles are launched from their silos along the Kansas - Missouri border. USAF officers then announce that 300+ ICBMs are inbound to the U.S., and 2 of them strike Kansas City, Missouri! Many are killed outright, but still more must face the danger of radioactive fallout. Now, the characters we follow are living in a barren, devastated world - devoid of electricity, safe drinking water, and food - and filled with radioactivity, starvation, and disease...in the horrific aftermath of 'The Day After'...

Theres a small summarasiation of the plot from IMDB

 

[Juke]

If there were to be a nuclear explosion, I would collect as much survival gear as possible, dig a hole in the ground preferrable three-feet underground or most likely, hide away in a multi-story complex that has thick walls so as to protect me from the radiation.

After two to three weeks time, I would then resurface and scavenge for more tools and gear. By this time, the radiation levels should be nominally safe but I wouldn't dare spend too much time out and about.