Amy Brashear - The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction

Marvel. Vol.1 #259, December 1984. Contains the story of Mary Jane Watson.

DC. Ronnie Raymond is a high school student and Martin Stein is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist; an accident fused them together. Their first appearance was in Firestorm: Nuclear Man #1, March 1978.

Marvel. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created mutants who were born that way.

DC Comics, founded in 1934 by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.

Marvel Comics, founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman.

The smooth-talking friend of Han Solo played by Billy Dee Williams, the one black character in all three films.

Electromagnetic pulse. Electronic devices will be shut down for a hundred miles in every direction due to the EMP generated by the blast. That includes cars, radios, televisions, clocks—anything, really, that runs on electricity. And they won’t start up ever again.

“Ring of Fire” was written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore. It was originally recorded by June’s sister Anita Carter. However, it was most known as a Johnny Cash song that was released in April 1963. It’s a mixture of country and rock and roll.

Joanie Loves Chachi was a spin-off of Happy Days . It only aired for two seasons. It starred Erin Moran and Scott Baio as Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola. They tried their hand at a traveling rock band. The show was canceled last year.

A major motion picture that premiered on May 4, 1984. It was directed by John Hughes. It starred Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall.

A major motion picture that premiered on July 20, 1984. It was directed by Jeff Kanew. It starred Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards.

A major motion picture that premiered on August 13, 1982. It was directed by Taylor Hackford. It starred Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr.

A major motion picture that premiered on August 13, 1982. It was directed by Amy Heckerling. It starred Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, and Ray Walston.

A major motion picture that premiered on February 17, 1984. It was directed by Herbert Ross. It starred Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, Kevin Bacon, and John Lithgow.

A 1977 miniseries based on Alex Haley’s book Roots: The Saga of an American Family . It stared LeVar Burton in his acting debut as Kunta Kinte. Usually I watch him on Reading Rainbow on PBS.

A political satire black comedy that premiered January 29, 1964, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers in three roles. Also starring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Darth Vader himself, James Earl Jones.

Nucleomituphobia: the fear of nuclear weapons. Some people with this fear believe they will die because of a nuclear weapon. Also called nucleomitaphobia or nucleomitophobia. Associated words: fallout, radiation, thermonuclear warfare. Causes: external events and internal predispositions. Symptoms typically include extreme anxiety, dread, the fear of going outside and standing under the bomb, which would result in turning into a skeletonized version of a fleshless body, and of course anything associated with panic, such as shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, inability to articulate words or sentences, and shaking. There is no cure.

An adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel, The War of the Worlds , which was published in 1898, but the radio show occurred in 1938. People listening to the broadcast thought it was real, and it caused mass chaos.

There’s Mad Max (1979) and Mad Max 2 (1981), and both movies take place in a not-so-distant future in a postapocalyptic Australia. Both movies were directed by George Miller. The story follows Max Rockatansky as he sets out on a path of revenge because his family was murdered by a biker gang. He’s a total loner. It starred newcomer Mel Gibson.

“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” is a pop song written by Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, and Eddie Seiler in 1938. First recorded by Harlan Leonard and His Rockets and later covered by many artists such as The Ink Spots, who are well-known for teaming up with Ella Fitzgerald. In 1941, The Ink Spots (Bill Kenny, Deek Watson, Charlie Fuqua, and Hoppy Jones) recorded the song and it hit #4 on the US pop chart.

He played center for the University of Houston and was the overall first pick in the 1984 NBA draft. He plays for the Houston Rockets.

He’s a professional basketball player. He’s a shooting guard. He played for the University of North Carolina. He was drafted in the first round but the third pick for the Chicago Bulls.

He’s a professional basketball player. He played for Auburn University. He’s a power forward who was drafted in the first round and the fifth pick for the Philadelphia 76ers.

He’s a professional basketball player. He’s a point guard who played for Gonzaga University. He was drafted in the first round and was the 16th overall pick by the Utah Jazz.

The Band, Music from Big Pink , Capitol Records, 1968. The Band is a staple around my house. The group formed in Canada, but Levon Helm is from Turkey Scratch, so yeah, we claim them.

One of the greatest singers of all time. He’s the lead singer of Queen. And the greatest showman ever.

Queen, A Night at the Opera , Elektra, 1975.

Queen, News of the World , Elektra, 1977.

A 1968 science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, James Daly, and Linda Harrison. Astronauts wake up from a deep hibernation and discover that it’s no longer 1972 but instead the year 3978—and they haven’t aged a day, well, except for Stewart. She’s dead and decayed due to a crack in her sleep pod. The remaining crew departs the spaceship and wanders around the planet where they crash landed, encountering talking apes and humans being imprisoned. At the end they discover that the strange planet was home all along. Damn y’all to hell!

All of this may or may not be true. Big Brother is still watching.