{"id":190449,"date":"2024-02-13T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190449"},"modified":"2024-11-28T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:12:16","slug":"substack-nuclear-winter-chic-in-1983-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190449","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear winter television events in 1983-84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image_square-e1707839500229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image_square-e1707839500229.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image_square-e1707839500229-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image_square-e1707839500229-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image_square-e1707839500229-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn my Substack I wrote about three television events which aired in the jittery world of 1983-84, all of which depict the aftermath of a nuclear bomb: the BBC&#8217;s <em>Threads<\/em>, aired only twice, scarring a generation, the American version, <em>The Day After<\/em>, and the less well-known (but much better) <em>Special Bulletin<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/p\/sticks-and-stones\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sticks and Stones: Nuclear winter chic in the early &#8217;80s: Threads, The Day After, Special Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my Substack I wrote about three television events which aired in the jittery world of 1983-84, all of which depict the aftermath of a nuclear bomb: the BBC&#8217;s Threads, aired only twice, scarring a generation, the American version, The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[2546,2567,2208,2739,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195574,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190449\/revisions\/195574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}