Steven Church grew up in the 1970s and '80s in Lawrence, Kansas, a
town whose predictable daily rhythms give way easily to
anxiety--and a place that, since Civil War times, has been a canvas
for sporadic scenes of havoc and violence in the popular
imagination. Childhood was quiet on the surface, but Steven grew up
scared--scared of killer tornadoes, winged monkeys, violent movies,
authority figures, the dissolution of his parents' marriage, and
most of all in Reagan's America, nuclear war. His fantasies of
nuclear meltdown, genetic mutation, and post-apocalyptic survival
find a focal point in 1982 when filming begins in Lawrence for The
Day After, a film which would go on to become the second-highest
Nielsen-rated TV movie. Despite cheesy special effects,
melodramatic plotlines, and the presence of Steve Guttenberg, the
movie had an instant and lasting impact on Church, and an entire
generation. Combining interview, personal essay, film criticism,
fact, and flights of imagination, Church's richly layered and
darkly comic memoir explores the meaning of Cold War fears for his
generation and their resonance today.
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