Federal Civil Defense Administration

Following a recent viewing of “The Day After,” the 1983 film depicting the destruction of Kansas City by nuclear attack, a reader wondered if the city was really considered a Soviet target during the Cold War years. In the movie, survivors of the attack witness the breakdown of society in rural Kansas and Missouri. The individual put the question to What’s Your KCQ?, a collaboration between the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star, also asking if the city did anything to address the threat.