News Summary

• In Kathryn Bigelow's new movie, A House of Dynamite, the clock is ticking.
• The film's fictional president of the United States has less than 20 minutes to decide whether or not to retaliate against a nuclear missile, launched at the U.S.
• The story is, of course, fiction, but it feels disturbingly plausible.
• In this episode we talk to screenwriter Noah Oppenheim about why he structured the movie the way he did and why they focused on nuclear war now.
• We also talk to Tom Nichols, a national-security writer at the Atlantic, about the realities of nuclear proliferation at this moment.