The alien invasion pact Reagan proposed to Gorbachev
Nothing unites two bitter nuclear superpowers quite like the entirely hypothetical threat of little green men. In 1985, Ronald Reagan directly asked Mikhail Gorbachev if the USSR would put aside their fierce geopolitical hatred to help the US if aliens invaded Earth. Gorbachev instantly agreed, cementing the most cynical sci-fi diplomatic treaty ever verbally established.

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