the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A government advisor who attended the screening, a friend of Meyer, told him: "If you wanted to draw blood, you did it. Those guys sat there like they were turned to stone." In 1987, Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which resulted in the banning and reducing of their nuclear arsenal. In Reagan's memoirs, he drew a direct line from the film to the signing. Reagan supposedly later sent Meyer a telegram after the summit: "Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did." During an interview in 2010, Meyer said that the telegram was a myth and that the sentiment stemmed from a friend's letter to Meyer. He suggested the story had origins in editing notes received from the White House during the production, which "may have been a joke, but it wouldn't surprise me, him being an old Hollywood guy." The film also had impact outside the United States. In 1987, during the era of Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television. Four years earlier, Georgia Representative Elliott Levitas and 91 co-sponsors introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives "[expressing] the sense of the Congress that the American Broadcasting Company, the Department of State, and the U.S. Information Agency should work to have the television movie The Day After aired to the Soviet public." Accolades The Day After won two Emmy Awards and received 10 other Emmy nominations. Emmy Awards won: Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects Emmy Award nominations: Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling Outstanding Achievement in Makeup Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special (Peter Wooley) Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or a Special (Gayne Rescher) Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special (Nicholas Meyer) Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special (Robert Papazian) Outstanding Film Editing for a Limited Series or a Special (William Dornisch and Robert Florio) Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or a Special Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special (John Lithgow) Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special (Edward Hume) See also Television Event, a documentary film about the making and release of the film Testament, a television film moved to theatrical release two weeks before The Day After