ABC News Viewpoint - "The Day After" - WLS Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 11/20/1983) 📺
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- Here is (in improved quality) the complete live ABC News Viewpoint special on "The Nuclear Dilemma". This aired immediately following "The Day After" on WLS Channel 7 - an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States. Hosted by Ted Koppel. There were no commercials in the broadcast.
Panel of guests were:
- Carl Sagan - notable and distinguished scientist and an authority on the topic of Nuclear Winter.
- William F. Buckley Jr. - noted conservative political commentator, and publisher of the National Review
- Robert S. McNamara - United States Secretary of Defense to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
- Henry Kissinger - National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon
- Brent Scowcroft - National Security Adviser for President Gerald Ford, and later National Security Adviser for President George H.W. Bush
- Elie Wiesel - noted author, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Holocaust survivor
Also includes a one-on-one interview with then Secretary of State George Schultz, Sagan addressing the concept of nuclear winter, audience questions, and more.
At 1:04:37, Sagan gives his now famous analogy, "Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger..."
We also see an on-screen crawl at 33:45 and again at 35:57 promoting WLS-TVs Eyewitness News coverage of the movie, immediately following the Viewpoint special.
Lastly, after the special is over there is a promo for ABC News featuring Peter Jennings.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 20th 1983 during the 9:25pm to 10:45pm timeframe.
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Just two months prior to this, there was the precise crisis that the Soviet Union believed they were under attack from the United States. Stanislaus Petrov, a Soviet Officer, believed that it was a false alarm and therefore did not launch nuclear weapons towards the United States. Luckily, they didn't have an automated system where it would launch immediately. And this was very likely the most important and closest moment we came to a nuclear world war. This was just 39 years ago. And because Stanislaus was on duty, and because he made that decision, even when others were telling him to retaliate based on false information, there are billions of people who are alive and have gone on to live lives, have children and grandchildren and be born. It is something that is important to remember, realize and to celebrate the fact that this man may have been an officer of an enemy country, single-handedly prevented a nuclear Armageddon and the end of the world. It's not a commonly known event that should be taught in schools and should be remembered as we move into a world using programming and artificial intelligence. Because artificial intelligence doesn't have certain capabilities, it is limited in ability.
There was a similar close call in the late 1990s, after "the Soviet Union fell."
Ted Koppel's skills as a moderator were extraordinary as he handled some of the most powerful men in the political and scientific community while not being above deadpan snark:
"Let me capitalize on that brief moment of agreement because I suspect that there won't be many more."
Ted kopple definitely handled them like a boss ! And was a awesome journalist in his day I remember him in the mid 90s
I am happy this was taped and now put up here. It was an important night in television history. Thank you.
December 30 2019 - still here!
4/3/24 just turned 40 and alive n well
I wish we were still in 2019
Somehow my grade school acquired a copy of the movie on film and played it for grades 4, 5, and 6 in the school auditorium. That was in 1983 or 84. We still had civil defense drills in the 80's.
That’s crazy! Super scary to watch at those ages.
I was in 5th grade. I remember my elementary school sent notes to parents asking them to not let kids watch it
Damn I miss Carl Sagan.. The voice of reason in an unreasonable world..
God, can we, please, have again this quality of national network broadcast television in America?
And I want to point out that the quality exhibited here depends not just on the topic, not just on the selection of moderator and panelists, and not just on the intellect and eloquence of everyone who spoke, including those in the audience: it depends also on the production values. ABC News chose to focus on the discussion, nothing else: there are no breaks for commercials; there was no requirement that Ted Koppel name himself and the network every three minutes; the set was not designed with the goal of placing the ABC News logo in every shot (nor did it provide visual distractions in general: in most shots, we saw humans talking in a field of black, no extraneous colors and shapes); and the person operating the character-generator simply named the speakers and didn't constantly invade our minds with ABC News logos, animations, and excessive details in color and typeface. This is how you make public-affairs television that stimulates viewers without exhausting them, and focuses their attention where it belongs.
It can be done again: you analyze the successful recipe, you emulate it, and you refrain from doctoring it.
Well said
I agree completely….very keen observation!
No, you can't. Where are your concerns happening? Radio? That's only where I see someone naming their network and themselves every 3 minutes.
Part of your observations come down to the time period and the production values used by ABC *at the time*. Although I do agree that ABC did good with dropping breaks for the hour.
You can still have a frank and honest (and maybe even a better) discussion with the network bells and whistles used today.
Somewhere along the way, the people who pay for and therefore control the networks began to believe that you and I were beneath such discussions, that you and I were peasants to lord over rather than peers to be invited to a congenial chat about international geopolitical policy.
What an incredible panel of thinkers. You're bound to disagree with one of them, but this is a list of cold war giants. Ed Schultz, Brent Snowcroft, Carl Sagan, William F Buckley, Robert Macnamara, Henry Kissenger, Elie Wiesel.
December 30 2019 - TV isn't like this any more
All the Carl Sagan commentary here:
12:35
36:25
44:09
54:54
1:04:36
1:11:54
1:16:12
People seemed more thoughtful and more eloquent in those days.
They were. Back than we had Dem and GOP. Now leftists and GOP
Carl Sagan and a room full of thoughtful and eloquent war criminals, better times.
@@chuckruckus3648 It's spelled n-a-z-i-s, not g-o-p.
@@TheDrtachyon Meanwhile Democrats are trying to provoke Russia into a nuclear war because the President's son has a financial stake in an eastern European outlier defended by actual Nazis (like the Azov battalion).
They were
Wow, didn't know they had done this. I really enjoyed the movie.
I agree with Sagan with his analysis here and the chances of any kind of survival is very slim to say that food supplies in bunkers will eventually go off or run out even makeshift bunkers in your house will not be enough to protect you and your family it’s a matter of who survive and who dies but this is very grim and not to be ignored.
This is more pertinent than ever.
I have watched this several times. This latest re-watch was acutely distressing. I watched how the panelists in high station held very different outlooks, but they each strived to search for and locate a Common Ground.
I just do not see such efforts today in America, and that is the cause of my distress. More than any nuclear detonation, this internal apathy troubles this American greatly.
Where i can watch ``The crisis game `` the program what Ted koppel talked at the end ?
Still here!!! 41 years!!!
I wonder if there were any EBS tests, tornado or severe storm warnings that popped up on TV or radio during the showing of “The Day After”?
That would have been some scary shit!
BTW, the BBC equivalent “Threads” and “The War Game” were more gruesome than “The Day After”
My mom made a recording of this from WDHO-TV here in Toledo that night.
I remember watching both the film and this discussion. When I re-watch the discussion now, I notice something, On the one hand, Kissinger, McNamara and Scowcroft all talk about the importance of stability, which means keeping force sizes and strength stability balanced. But every time the issue of either mutual reduction or new weapons systems are brought up-except for Star Wars-they rebuff reduction and argue for new weapons systems-which are destabilizing. When I hear this discussion now, I again think it was a wonder we survived this period. Of course, plenty of nukes out there still…and a lot less discussion about them than here.
Um... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year?
Thought it was appropriate for The Day After Christmas. ;-)
Too soon!! :)
... not sure if you were there, but as a kid, it was a pretty freakin' devastating television event and there was so much weirdness of freaked out adults for years afterward.
Very timely , considering how we are back rebuilding and expanding what took so many so much effort to reduce . How ridiculously short the American memory lasts .
Current 90-second (July 11, 2022) New York City public service announcement advises residents to prepare. "So there's been a nuclear attack ... just know that the big one has hit. Ok, so what do we do?" Step 1: get inside fast. Step 2: stay inside. Step 3: follow media for more information, don't go outside until officials say it's safe.
I can only assume they are trying to put Covid and high gasoline prices into perspective. Or they know something that we don't.
Somehow we have a leader that brought us back to eve of nuke apocalypse
That person name is??? KING TRUMP!!!!! Plus, the DOOMSDAY CLOCK is now at: 90 Seconds to NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE!!!!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA and Arrest that S.O. B. right now!!!!!!!!
And his name was Donald.
@@PhilipPedro2112wait, so in 2022 what Donald in the White House are you referring to? Unless I missed something there was someone else there at the time.
Don’t get me wrong, Trump is a bafoon, but lies such as yours don’t help anyone. This broadcast is a great example of how people used to be far more capable of dialog, exactly the opposite of folks such as you.
Chump, Donnie J.@@c1ph3rpunk
Punk.
I'm in love with the redhead girl at 1:11:34 😍😍😍
Boy, these sure are some fuzzy memories right here.
Fuzzy, but still there. Dr Sagan and Robert MacNamara’s comments in particular bear repeating.
@@aaronboren5851 I was just making a joke because I thought fuzzy meant ‘warm and fuzzy’ as opposed to hazy. This discussion unfortunately seems just as relevant now as then.
I recoment reading amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman
Meanwhile... 40yrs later in 2023...
I saw the movie as an 11 year old. Big, big mistake.
Wish they would have had Chomsky on this panel
Oh yes.
I respect the guy, but this really isn't the place for a Blame America First diatribe.
Wish we had Reagan in the White House these days. Even his corpse couldn't be worse.
You really are a special little snowflake ❄️
He was a great President. Unfortunately 2 of his 3 Supreme Court appointments went liberal.
I couldn't stand Reagan but he's preferable to Chump.
Its hard to take kissinger serious, when he sounds like the burgermeister meisterburger.
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