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In the fall of 1983, "The Day After," a fict ional account of a nu clear attack on a civilian populat ion , was broadcast o n television in the Uni ted States and viewed by I00 milli on Amer ica ns . " The Day After" was said to d iffer from previous mo vie treatments of nu clear war by the vividness with which it fo rced its audience to experience th e ground zero effects of a nuclear bla st on human beings ( I) . In wha t was d escribed as " the most hor ri fically searing footage eve r to pa ss a network ce nsor," the au dience was shown "group immolation , a ca rnage of mass vaporization" and "gra p hic images of death" ( I ). It was widely predicted th at this movie would have stressful psychologica l e ffects because it dealt with a potent ially real di saster. Warnings of possible psychiatric side effects o f th e film were issued by th e Am eri can Psychiatr ic Association , the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, th e American Aca demy of Pediatr ics, and the American Broadcasting Company (1,2 ,3). So serious ly were these warnings taken th at th e Federal Emergency Management Agency increased its staffing in anticipation of the movi e 's psychological fa llout (2) . After the movie was shown, however , th ere was little syste ma tic documentatio n of its psych ological effects on th e public. Sin ce similarly grap hic movies addressing th e effects of nu clear war co ntinue to be rel eased and a re plann ed for the future , we feel th e issue of th e psych ological e ffec ts of these films remains salient. In order to stimu late interest in survey methods of assessing the psychi atric e ffects of media events, we co nd ucted a stu dy in wh ich we administered the State-Anxiety (A-State) subscale of the Sta te -Trait Anxiety Inventory (ST AI) and th e Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAA CL) to 37 subjects immediately before and after th ey watch ed "The Day After." T he resu lts of this stu dy

War of the Worlds Revisited: The Effect of Watching "The Day After" on Mood State