Coincident with the twentieth anniversary of The Day After comes the announcement of this big-budget film on apocalyptic global warming. However, it is certainly not the case that we need no longer worry about thermonuclear apocalypse either. If the Bush dysadministration has its way, we should all reacquaint ourselves with the 1983 film. As someone who was preoccupied back then with working on disarmament issues (whenever I wasn’t memorizing anatomical details for my medical school classes), the night I gathered wtih a group of like-minded friends to watch The Day After and consider that this event had the potential to break through the nuclear numbing (to use a phrase of my mentor, psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton) of millions of American viewers was a prodigious experience. It needs to happen for a new generation now too…