The spectre of nuclear apocalypse is back on our screens. In Netflix’s A House of Dynamite , a US president must decide how to respond to a nuclear missile fired against it by an unidentified adversary.

Back in the real world, the US is engaged in its annual large-scale exercise to test its ability to respond to a nuclear attack. This comes hard on the heels of Russia’s own annual nuclear exercise last week.

Russia claimed its latest exercise was used to test new and advanced weapons, including a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile called Burevestnik . The missile was first announced in 2018, via an unsubtle simulated strike on Hawaii. Nato has named it Skyfall. New Feature

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