https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev8nwe/nuclear-war-novel-the-2020-commission-report-jeffrey-lewis

In November 1983, ABC ran The Day After, a shockingly realistic made-for-TV movie about the effects of nuclear war on a town in Kansas. For decades it was the most-watched broadcast in television history. Then President Ronald Reagan said the film "greatly depressed" him and helped to shift his views on atomic weapons.

Thirty-five years on, the threat of nuclear war is no less real as Donald Trump alternately courts and insults a nuke-armed North Korea. And a new novel from one of America's leading nuclear policy experts aims to do what The Day After did, and spur us to action.