House of Dynamite Writer Responds to Pentagon’s Take on Missile Portrayal

House of Dynamite screenwriter Noah Oppenheim has answered the Pentagon after it contended his Netflix thriller, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, inaccurately portrays how U.S. defense systems react to an incoming nuclear missile attack.

“We respectfully disagree,” Oppenheim told MSNBC ’s The Weekend program after the Pentagon in an Oct. 16 internal memo argued U.S. missile interceptors “have displayed a 100 percent accuracy rate in testing for more than a decade”.

While conceding he and Bigelow did not speak to the Pentagon during the making of House of Dynamite , they did extensive research before concluding “unfortunately our missile defense system is highly imperfect, and if the Pentagon wants to have a conversation about improving it or what the next step might be in keeping