@booklet {10066, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Charlottesville: A Fictional Account{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Effects of Nuclear War}, year = {1979}, month = {1979}, pages = {124-38}, publisher = {Office of Technological Assessment, Congress of the United States}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

A day-by-day account of the effects of nuclear war on Charlottesville, Virginia. The story provided the basis for the television film The Day After (1983) written by Edward Hume (b. 1936) and directed by Nicholas Meyer (b. 1945).The author had written with William Kincade (1939-2017), the executive director of the Arms Control Association, a series describing the effect of two nuclear bombs dropped on the Tampa Bay area. See \“Doomsday.\” St. Petersburg Times (February 25-28, 1979): 1A, 20A; 1A, 13A-14A; 1A, 7A; 12A. \ For background to the story, see Alexis C. Madrigal, \“The People Who Would Survive Nuclear War.\” The Atlantic.com (January 25, 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/that-time-the-government-commission-fiction-about-nuclear-war/551303/

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Nan Randall} }