“I feel depressed,” Ronald Reagan said after a private screening of “The Day After.” The 1983 TV movie shocked viewers with graphic images of a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.
There is a legend that a feature film is said to have had a significant influence on Ronald Reagan’s political decisions. When the US President signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, he was said to still be under the impression of his private screening of “The Day After”. have. As…
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