Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (and other sci-fi writers) were engaged by the Reagan administration to counter the USSR during the cold war, leading to the "st

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (and other sci-fi writers) were engaged by the Reagan administration to counter the USSR during the cold war, leading to the "stars wars" Strategic Defence Initiative. Niven and Pournelle stated in a documentary that this was the cause of the collapse of the soviet union.