Reply #27: You may be right about the date.

[MamaBear]

It may have been the early '80s. It would have been 1980 or later, I think. In any event, the chapter detailing the chronology of events if a 1 megaton bomb were airburst 1 mile above the Empire State Building had New York buzzing for quite a while. It was very, very specific.

The closest I have seen to seeing the events protrayed on film was in The Day After an ABC made for TV film. The "drama" part of the film is strickly made-for-TV soap opera, but the sequence of the American midwest being nuked is quite long, quite detailed (and includes the effects of the electromagnetic pulse), and kept a whole bunch of people up nights.
Edit: typo