As if we didn’t have enough to worry about these days, “A House of Dynamite,” the crackling new thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow, wants to add one more fear to keep us up at night — the specter of atomic annihilation.

You may be old enough to remember when nuclear anxiety was No. 1 on the hit parade of humanity’s greatest concerns. Bigelow’s new movie, her first in eight years, wants to remind us that the warheads haven’t gone anywhere. In fact, with the world becoming more chaotic and unstable, the threat they pose, the film argues, is graver than ever.

Unimaginable, you say. “A House of Dynamite” asks us to imagine it.

To be precise, it asks us to imagine it repeatedly as the movie is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different and sometimes overlapping set of peop

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