Warning: This piece contains some spoilers for A House of Dynamite .

In the new Netflix movie A House of Dynamite , director Kathryn Bigelow chronicles what happens when the unthinkable unfolds. One morning, members of the Fort Greely missile defense base spot an ICBM of unknown origin on a suborbital trajectory heading straight for Chicago, baffling the country’s top intelligence and defense teams who only have 18 minutes to respond before impact. Viewers take in this prelude to disaster across three perspectives, each one repeating the same countdown in near-real time and featuring different sets of characters in different locations—bureaucrats and intelligence heads from the White House, to the Pentagon, to STRATCOM headquarters, which communicate via video conference call to d

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