oldshowbiz:

The Day After (1983), the high-rated made-for-tv movie about nuclear annihilation, was dismissed by reactionaries as nothing but communist propaganda

It’s worth noting that the early ‘80s were time of the “Nuclear Freeze” movement, a “hey, why don’t we just stop having nukes?” thing that was widely considered to be propped up as a Soviet op in a situation where a nuclearized Europe offered no obvious hope of conquest, and so “nuclear weapons are just horrible” was, coherently, considered a Soviet-benefiting message to inject into the culture at that point