Pentagon Disputes 'House Of Dynamite' Missile Accuracy; Screenwriter Responds

The Department of Defense and Netflix are in a clash over how accurate nuclear disaster drama A House of Dynamite truly is.

Highlighting a specific major HoD plot point, an October 16 memo from officials at the Pentagon was produced with the intent to address “false assumptions” from the film.

The document says the failure of the military to stop a missile headed for the continental USA depicted in the Kathryn Bigelow directed film is okay as “a compelling part of the drama intended for the entertainment of the audience,” but the real-world capacities “tell a vastly different story.”

In House of Dynamite, a intercepter missiles are said to have a 61% success rate in taking down incoming warheads, like the origin unknown enemy missile heading to wipe out the almost 10 millio