The Day After is a movie that Ronald Reagan saw, which prompted him to contact Gorbachev and reduce arsenals.
Ronald Reagan saw the movie The Day After, A Great Narrative, uh, an ABC TV movie about a nuclear war, and it so upset him. He was Reagan being a nuclear hawk. It so upset him that he reached out to the archeneemy, the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, and said, "We need to have a dialogue and we need to reduce our arsenals. We're not going to live forever."
""The movie is mentioned as a catalyst for dialogue between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev to reduce nuclear arsenals."