US EditionNetflix’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Sounds the Nuclear Alarm
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'A House of Dynamite' explodes US power myths
Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” arrives at a moment when the nuclear threat has become background noise in our collective consciousness—a distant Cold War relic we’ve learned to ignore. Yet Bigelow, with her characteristic surgical precision, forces us to confront what we’ve spent decades repressing: the elaborate fiction of control that undergirds American nuclear […] The post ‘A House of Dynamite’ explodes US power myths appeared first…
Netflix’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ sounds the nuclear alarm
As a teenager in the 1980s, I was shown a BBC drama in school called Threads that depicted the impact of a nuclear strike on a city in northern England. Threads is a brutal vision of a terrifying reality that I imagine haunted many people in the years before the end of the cold war.For...
We live in an era in which the demonstrations of power are no longer just exercises of military muscle: they are political messages, technological lessons and warnings directed to both enemies and allies. The powers of the twenty-first century exhibit weapons that touch science fiction, not necessarily to use them tomorrow, but to impose respect today. From Korea to Washington, from Moscow to Beijing, the planet assists in the consolidation of a…
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