To watch the new Catherine Bigelow movie A House of Dynamite on Netflix is to immediately start freaking out about a nuclear war.
We've already lost one American city today.
How many more do you want to risk?
What kind of fucking question is that?
Some enemy, it could be Russia, it could be North Korea,
launches a nuclear warhead at Chicago from the Pacific Ocean.
It's okay.
The U.S.
has interceptors.
They blast up into the air and they knock the nukes out.
That is actually true in real life.
That's our nuclear defense system.
Except in the movie, the interceptors fail.
Except, it's just a movie.
Except, a few days before it came out on Netflix,
the Pentagon started freaking out and talking internally about how to calm people down.
Coming up on Today explained from AI to Golden Dome to Netflix's new hit,
why everybody is suddenly talking about nuclear war.
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