the family only found out it had happened when they turned their TV on in the morning and saw a picture of their own condo on the morning news with the scrolling headline "MIRACLE SAVES SINGLE CONDOMINIUM" running under it. They never even lost power.

The Protect and Survive films and leaflets produced by the British government in the early 1980s seemed to imply that this would be the outcome of a nuclear conflict. Sure, you'd have to stay inside for a couple of weeks, but after that everything would be just fine and dandy. Threads and When the Wind Blows (see Comic Books, above) were produced in response. To some degree it actually made sense, because in the 1980s nuclear strategy generally shifted away from attacking population andas well. Like its British counterparts mentioned above, The Day After was produced to show how bad even a "limited" nuclear war would be.

In October 2016, a photo of a Hong Kong man sitting in a Starbucks flooded due to heavy rain engrossed in a newspaper went viral.

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