Ihave studied nuclear weapons for my entire adult life and I have watched more than a hundred movies with nuclear weapons in them—from Dr. Strangelove to Austin Powers, from The Day After to several Mission Impossible movies. I also served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director at the National Security Council responsible for things like nuclear arms control and policy. In short, I am a nuclear nerd and know a lot about nuclear weapons.

So I sat down to watch the new Netflix movie A House of Dynamite by Kathryn Bigelow knowing a few things about nuclear weapons in the real world and in the movies. And overall, I liked the movie it because it gets so many things right. Yet at the same time, this is not a movie for experts and nuclear wonks to lov

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