The 1983 made-for-TV film ‘The Day After’ was watched by an estimated 100 million Americans on a single Sunday night, and Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that it left him ‘greatly depressed’, a reaction his biographers later linked directly to his push for the Reykjavik disarmament summit three years later.

On November 20, 1983, an estimated 100 million Americans watched ABC's nuclear war film 'The Day After' on a single night. President Reagan, who had screened it a month earlier, wrote in his diary that it left him 'greatly depressed', a reaction his biographers later linked to the path that led to the Reykjavik summit and the INF Treaty. The post The 1983 made-for-TV film ‘The Day After’ was watched by an estimated 100 million Americans on a single Sunday night, and Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that it left him ‘greatly depressed’, a reaction his biographers later linked directly to his push for the Reykjavik disarmament summit three years later. appeared first on Space Daily .