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The 5 best nuclear war movies of all time

The arrival of director Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated nuclear war thriller “A House of Dynamite” (in theaters and on Netflix now) heralds the return of a long-forgotten genre: the cautionary ...

Nuclear Anxiety, That Staple of 1980s Cinema, Is Back

After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever ...
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This 42-year-old war movie still has the funniest end of the world moment

The war movie that ends with one of the funniest end-of-the-world moments arrived 42 years ago, and it still is a biting ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month

One of the climactic moments in A House of Dynamite is a friendly reminder. Captain Olivia Walker (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is in the White House Situation Room where, moments earlier, her team ...
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Troy Reimink: On top of everything else, here's a terrifying nuclear war movie

Generation-defining nuclear-war movies seem to come in pairs. Stanley Kubrick’s bleak satire “Dr. Strangelove” arrived in 1964, the same year as Sidney Lumet’s even bleaker Cold War drama “Fail Safe.” ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A house of mistakes: what Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ gets radically right—and dangerously wrong—about nuclear war

SPOILER ALERT: This is a nuclear posture review, not a movie review, of Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, and discusses in detail the realism or lack thereof of specific scenarios and plot lines ...