Pentagon Stressing Over Military Capability in Netflix Movie

The plot line of a new Netflix military thriller has got under the skin of the Pentagon. A House of Dynamite, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) is based on an imminent nuclear attack from a single, unattributed missile launched at the United States, with officials trying to determine who is responsible and how to respond. However, an internal government memo from the Missile Defense Agency obtained by Bloomberg, insists the fictional doomsday scenario in the movie underestimates U.S. capabilities and firepower. It has taken issue with a line in the movie that current missile defenses have a 50 percent chance of taking out a missile. They claim that modern interceptors have a 100 percent accuracy rate and that their testing results “tell a vastly different stor