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An interview with Ted Koppel on the meaning of The Day After

In 1983, Ted Koppel was fairly early in what became a 25-year run as the anchor and managing editor of Nightline, the storied ABC News public affairs program, when the network asked him to host a different kind of show. ABC was planning to air a television movie named The Day Afterthat presented such an unvarnished depiction of the aftermath of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union as to have become a cause célèbre, even before it was aired. Other movies might be more frightening or gruesome, the New York Times’ John Corry wrote in a pre-broadcast review, but “[a]s a primer on the horror of thermonuclear war, this is effective, a graphic rendering of the pit.” The special quality of The Day After, Corry noted, “is its feeling of despair.”

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For more on The Day After, the people who helped make it happen, and the lessons it still holds for addressing nuclear weapons today, don’t miss the Bulletin’s special feature: Facing nuclear reality, 35 years after The Day After.

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The power of its depiction made the decision to broadcast The Day After into a political controversy, a battle waged largely along left-right lines. ABC hoped a Koppel-moderated edition of

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Decades before Donald Trump, Ben Carson or Ted Cruz became key players in the Republican Party, William F. Buckley, Jr. helped forge the ideology of the modern GOP. The National Review founder, television host and conservative columnist, who died in 2008, envisioned a movement united around small-government, anti-Communist ideals. The so-called "Buckley Rule," promising his magazine's support to "the rightward-most viable candidate" is still invoked as a test for those seeking office.

At a time when House Republicans are in a state of turmoil and Paul Ryan is stepping in to lead a bitterly divided caucus, we thought it was an appropriate moment to revisit 60 Minutes' classic Buckley interview, a wide-ranging, often funny, conversation about the fundamentals of conservative thought.

Morley Safer interviewed Buckley for the profile in the video player above, which aired just two days before Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981. Buckley, who called Reagan a political "godchild," seemed positively gleeful at the idea of him as president.

"It is, by our standards, a marvelous accomplishment that someone the mere mention of whose name brought nothing but laughter from most liberals over a period of 15 or 20 years is all of a sudden president-elect of the United States," he