"It is powerfully done, all $7 million worth. It's very effective and left me greatly depressed," Reagan wrote in his diary after a private screening of the movie at Camp David. "Whether it will be of help to the 'anti-nukes' or not, I can't say. My own reaction was one of having to do all we can to have a deterrent & to see there is never a nuclear war." Just two months later, in a nationally televised speech, the then-president said "my dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the earth."