How much do you know about nuclear warfare?

Sitting on a New York City hotel balcony with Kathryn Bigelow , I realize she has just taught me pretty much everything I know on the subject. Her latest film, A House of Dynamite , takes us inside the secret spaces and behind the closed doors of the military-industrial complex, like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty — her two other films in this “triptych”, as she calls it. This time, Bigelow has applied her meticulously researched, journalistic approach to this terrifyingly real question: what exactly would happen at high levels of government if a nuclear missile was headed for the U.S?

In the film, we learn we’d have about 18 minutes from launch to impact. We also learn that the likelihood of intercepting an incoming missi

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