A Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald Reagan
IdeasA Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald ReaganThe Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.By Tom NicholsIllustration by Liz Sanders / The Atlantic. Source: Dirck Halstead / Getty.August 14, 2026, 8 AM ET ShareSave Americans do not know enough about the Cold War, and much of what they think they know is wrong. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Republicans took a victory lap, rightly noting that the Soviet collapse was unimaginable when President Ronald Reagan first took office.
- ▪IdeasA Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald ReaganThe Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.By Tom NicholsIllustration by Liz Sanders / The Atlantic.
- ▪Source: Dirck Halstead / Getty.August 14, 2026, 8 AM ET ShareSave Americans do not know enough about the Cold War, and much of what they think they know is wrong.
- ▪After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Republicans took a victory lap, rightly noting that the Soviet collapse was unimaginable when President Ronald Reagan first took office.
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IdeasA Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald ReaganThe Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.By Tom NicholsIllustration by Liz Sanders / The Atlantic. Source: Dirck Halstead / Getty.August 14, 2026, 8 AM ET ShareSave Americans do not know enough about the Cold War, and much of what they think they know is wrong. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Republicans took a victory lap, rightly noting that the Soviet collapse was unimaginable when President Ronald Reagan first took office. Liberal critics, however, argued—also rightly—that the Soviet Union was a decaying, economically crippled giant by the time Reagan was inaugurated.
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