Tonight on “40 for 40 (at 8:40),” we’re digging into the year 1983. One of my more lasting memories of that year is the TV movie “The Day After.”

Close to 40 million households were glued to their sets for the broadcast, setting a record for highest-rated TV film in history. The premise: full-scale nuclear war between the Soviet Union and United States, a theme that preyed on the the most extreme of our cold war paranoia.

Does the movie hold up? Not sure. I did, however, just get the chills replaying the attack scene that starts around the 54 minute mark.