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 ...

Kathryn Bigelow's terrifying new thriller "A House of Dynamite" gives us a minute-by-minute breakdown of how various people working for the U.S. government might react if a nuclear missile was on its ...

In Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House of Dynamite, the clock is ticking. The film’s fictional president of the United States has less than 20 minutes and very little information to decide whether or ...

A few weeks ago, after the release of A House of Dynamite on the 2025 movie schedule, a colleague recommended Annie Jacobson’s 2024 non-fiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario and explained how Denis ...

Ms. Kingsbury is the Opinion editor. Mr. Hennigan writes about national security issues for Opinion from Washington. “A House of Dynamite” is a taut, high-stakes thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow ...

"A House of Dynamite" looks at what happens if a nuclear weapon were launched at the U.S. The new Kathryn Bigelow movie streams Friday, Oct. 24, on Netflix. What's fact and what's fiction in "A House ...

Imagine a nuclear warhead is hurtling straight toward us, with only 18 minutes to respond before a major city is obliterated. The movie was conceived by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, who has ...

Art serves many purposes, like providing us with an inside look at the fears and neuroses of society at any given time in history. This month marked the 80th anniversary of when the U.S. dropped ...

On the morning of Oct. 10, 1983, in the rocky hills of Camp David, President Ronald Reagan was treated to an early screening of one of the year’s most anticipated films, “The Day After,” a two-hour ...