S1E1: Not All Fun and WarGames
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Nuclear Crisis in 1983 Pop Culture
Jeffrey Toobin: It's nuts that Able Archer participants didn't know a nuclear crisis was unfolding under their noses. He says in the 1980s there was pervasive anxiety about nuclear weapons, and pop culture reflected it. The 1983 Bond film had a nuclear plot; even Sting chimed in on 99 Luft Balloons. Toobin: One movie stands above all the rest when it comes to examples of nuclear anxiety in 1983 pop culture.
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