I grew up during the "Nuclear Winter" propaganda campaign and ten years later when I found out the amount of bombs that were tested I was shocked, but yes your right this is not the exact scenario laid out in The Day After
But it's not nothing...
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You're sure right about that.
Lung cancers doubled every ten years for decades after the tests. There's also been massive propaganda that smoking was the cause.
Doesn't match the data though.
Still, the deaths from a nuclear winter would have been far worse, so we can be grateful to have dodged that bullet - so far.