Overmorrow: on the day after tomorrow. Example: "I'll have that report to you overmorrow." Why: Overmorrow was in Middle English but fell out of the language. So instead of having this word ...

It wasn’t the day after a TV movie that aired 40 years ago this month that network executives, advertisers, mental health experts and parents across the country were worried about. It was the ...

ABC’s 1983 film 'The Day After' — the subject of a new documentary as well as a book —not only blew America’s (and Ronald Reagan’s) mind, but it may also have changed the course of human ...

On Nov. 20, 1983, ABC-TV aired “The Day After,” a film that depicted the devastating effects of a nuclear exchange near Kansas City. A documentary by Jeff Daniels called “Television Event ...

movie about nuclear annihilation. That made-for-TV film, “The Day After,” not only served as a highwater mark for the genre but almost surely contributed to hastening the end of the Cold War.

“The Day After,” a two-hour epic following a few weeks in the lives of small-town Midwesterners before and after a nuclear strike, was one of the most controversial and most-watched TV movies ...

Nicholas Meyer's seminal 1983 TV movie The Day After dramatizes the beginning and aftermath of a nuclear war. (Photo: ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...

Drake Baer contributed to an earlier version of this article. Overmorrow: on the day after tomorrow. Example: "I'll have that report to you overmorrow." Why: Overmorrow was in Middle English but ...