Cold War Season 1 Episode 22 Star Wars

Ronald Reagan pledges to defeat the "evil empire," but abhors the idea of nuclear war. He is prepared to increase arms expenditure significantly to protect the United States. Economically strong enough to bear the cost, the United States plans a strategic defense initiative, an anti-missile system in space. Mikhail Gorbachev knows that the Soviet Union cannot respond to Reagan's raising of the stakes and he desperately wants to liberalize the Soviet economy. The Soviet Union must opt out of the arms race it now knows it cannot win. After summits in Geneva, Reykjavik and Washington, Gorbachev and Reagan agree to slush arms stockpiles.