Kathryn Bigelow has been thinking about the threat of nuclear war ever since she was a kid. “I come from the era of duck and cover,” she says, “where when I was very little, we had to hide under the ...

What would happen if a country — or some unknown party — launched a nuclear missile toward the United States? Well, for starters, the decision-makers would have less than 20 minutes to decide. At best ...

The most terrifying thing about nuclear weapons isn’t the warheads, but how quiet we as a society have become about them. The Cold War-era fear of total annihilation has morphed into a dangerous ...

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Kathryn Bigelow, the filmmaker who recently debuted “A House of Dynamite,” responded to criticism from the Pentagon after portions of the movie alleged that the country’s nuclear weapon detection ...

Imagine a nuclear warhead is hurtling straight toward us, with only 18 minutes to respond before a major city is obliterated. The movie was conceived by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, who has ...

“A House of Dynamite” imagines what might happen if the U.S. were targeted by a nuclear missile. Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow explains why she decided to make this film at this moment. “A ...

For Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow and her cadre of A-list stars, the nuclear bomb-centered film is about so much more than a resolution. By Seija Rankin Senior Editor It was mid-2024, and ...

Her newest, “A House of Dynamite,” about a nuclear missile headed to the U.S., takes up themes of power and violence that have long interested her. Her newest, “A House of Dynamite,” about a nuclear ...