20 years after the Cold War ended, I came across this footage from an ABC Television movie which key theme is the effects of nuclear war on families and individuals.  Nearly 100 million Americans watched The Day After on its first broadcast in 1983, a record audience for a made-for-TV movie. The film provoked much political debate in the United States and Europe. 
President Reagan wrote in his diary that the film "left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war". In 1987 during the era of Soviet chairman Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television. During the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at Reykjavik, director Meyer received a telegram from President Reagan that said, 'Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did.' This short clip is taken from the middle of the movie, as the unprepared population is caught off-guard by events. Profoundly disturbing.