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Is ‘A House Of Dynamite’ A True Story? How Realistic Netflix’s Nuclear Film Really Is
The Pentagon disputes the film's claim of 50% interception success, citing over a decade of 100% accuracy in missile defense tests, despite the film's dramatic portrayal.
- On October 16, the Missile Defense Agency circulated an internal memo criticizing A House of Dynamite for fictional interceptors missing targets while real-world tests tell a vastly different story.
- The thriller follows the 18 minutes after an ICBM launch aimed at Chicago, showing Army ground-based interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, where one fails to fire and the other misses.
- The MDA argues testing records show a different picture, saying interceptors have displayed a 100 percent accuracy rate for over a decade and disputing the film's $50 billion cost figure.
- In a statement to Bloomberg News, the Pentagon said it was not consulted and the film 'does not reflect the views or priorities of this administration', while the Missile Defense Agency told personnel to address false assumptions and frame interceptors as critical for national defence.
- A 2020 Government Accountability Office report found the Pentagon spent about US$53 billion and planned about US$10 billion through 2025, with fewer than 50 ground-based interceptors managed by Boeing Co and operated under US Northern Command.
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ANALYSIS | House of Dynamite is a film fuelling nuclear war fears. It's far from the first
Kathryn Bigelow's House of Dynamite — about the United States government's protocols in the face of a nuclear attack — prompted a response from no less than the Pentagon. It is hardly the first nuclear-warning film to get people talking.
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'A House Of Dynamite' makes "false assumptions" about US nuclear defence, Pentagon memo argues
The Pentagon has distributed a memo denying that a plot point in the Netflix movie A House Of Dynamite is plausible. In the film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), the President of The United States (Idris Elba) and his staff frantically work to stop a nuclear missile heading for Chicago. At one point the defence secretary, played by Jared Harris, laments that the government’s multi-billion-dollar missile defences only have a 50 per…
·London, United Kingdom
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