The following post contains some light SPOILERS for A House of Dynamite.

The U.S. Department of Defense says that while the events that unfurl in Netflix ’s new doomsday political thriller, A House of Dynamite , are certainly gripping on screen, they’re also inaccurate.

In Kathryn Bigelow’s film, when military radars detect a nuclear missile headed straight for the continental U.S., the president plus various government individuals and departments have less than 20 minutes to try to neutralize the weapon and formulate a retaliatory response. The only problem? (Other than the catastrophic bomb, of course.) No one has any idea who sent the missile, or why.

It’s an edge-of-your-seat premise as the film tightly follows a group of understandably on-edge political actors who must naviga

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