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UCAM members: Nuclear war
would be worse than 'Day After'
Eric Petersen
Msntbers of the Lincoln chapter of United Cam
puses to Prevent Nuclear War agree that ABCs
presentation on nuclear attack in "The Day After"
was a relatively toned-down version of what would
occur during a real blast.
The Lincoln chapter of UCAM allows UNL stu
dents and faculty to work on political aspects of
nuclear issues, said UCAM's chairman, UNL physics
instructor Leo SartorL
Both Sartori and Bruce Kochis, UCAM faculty
adviser and steering committee member, agreed
that "The Day After" was beneficial in forcing the
arms race Issue into the minds of many Americans.
Sartori said although the consequences were
"understated," it was realistic to depict some human
beings surviving the attack. He said the annihilation
of the human race in a nuclear attack b "an extreme
position not held by the majority of responsible
scientists," though the possibility of universal death
could not be excluded.
"The race would not become extinct, but that's
small consolation in terms of what we think of as
civilization," Sartori said.
Kochis said that any discussion of nuclear attack
is unwelcome to many Americans. "Socially and cul
turally, we are conditioned to run away from these
issues," he said.
UCAM can serve as a way for people to have a
sense of involvement in the nuclear debate, Kochis
said.
"I think the really critical issue is that people not
sit back and wait for somebody to lead them some
where," he said. "People should start reading and
talking critically. One should not be afraid to say T
am afraid of all this' but that this fear need not
keep us from responding."
Kochis praised ABCs decision to broadcast "The
Day After" and said that NBCs mini-series on the
John F. Kennedy was placed in the same time slot as
an attempt to prevent consideration of the effects of
nuclear assault
ouoht it ("The Day After") was pretty mild
stuff, Kochis said. "Anything that goes on television
immediately falls under the rubric of entertainment
. . . It left out a lot the burned flesh, the diarrhea
and vomiting."
Kochis ad'ded that the television portrayal of
heroism after disaster and the attempt to hold onto
property after a nuclear attack wa3 unsupported by
what actually happened after Hiroshima and Naga
saki were bombed in Japan.
"People lose contact with reality (after an attack)
. . . simply because the world has been so vastly
changed," Kochis said.
UCAM was founded in 1931 as a national organi
zation by people connected with the Union of Con
cerned Scientists, Sartori said. Founders of the
group wanted to channel enthusiasm from a dem
onstration that occurred two years ago into some
thing permanent, he said. More than 200 campuses
in the country now have chapters.
The UNL chapter, started in fall 1982, co
sponsored an open forum with a State Department
nuclear policy maker, and also cosponsored a Dr.
Helen Caldecott's presentation last summer on the
medical implications of a nuclear attack.
Sartori said most groups members are faculty, but
UCAM will try to broaden its student membership
next semester.
Unlike many other anti-nuclear organizations
which focus only on educational efforts, UCAM has
endorsed specific proposals and candidates, com
ing out in favor of the nuclear freeze and Ground
Zero efforts, Sartori said.
Kochis, a Russian instructor, said many UCAM
members want to work on social and economic
issues in addition to those directly connected with
the nuclear arms race. Kochis said that tackling the
arms race without addressing the economic and
social factors which encourage it is sure to fail
; "It seems the history of the arms race shows that
the (single issue approach) doesn't work," he said, .
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