"Reagan grew up devouring fantastic sci-fi tales like Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars stories. He was also a huge fan of The Day the Earth Stood Still and its anti–nuclear war rhetoric, so much so that he had a habit—which drove Gen. Colin Powell crazy—of talking in public about how the U.S. and the USSR would certainly resolve their differences and unite if only aliens invaded. Reagan even brought this theory up in a private meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, which left his Russian counterpart flummoxed."
Kevin Bankston at Slate writes about Ronald Reagan and "how science fiction influenced his administration and his life."
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