Why Ronald Reagan Was Terrified Of A Beloved '80s Movie - SlashFilm

Movies Thriller Movies ByJeremy Smith June 24, 2025 2:20 pm EST MGM Ever since the United States dropped the atomic bombs Fat Man and Little Boy on, respectively, the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the world has known with terrifying certainty that humanity possesses the power to end all life on Earth — or, at least, most of it. Cockroaches might pull through (and, if 1977's "Damnation Alley" has the science right, get really big). When Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) entered the picture and the planet's two superpowers, the USA and the USSR, engaged in an arms race that produced arsenals capable of reducing the world to, in the words of Klaatu, a burned-out cinder, it's weird that the world didn't stand still, take to the streets en masse, and demand the elimination of all nuclear weapons in order to ensure their future, their children's future, their children's children's future, and so on.When the world found itself on the verge of a full-scale nuclear war du...