This was a big week to get more afraid about nuclear weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the testing of a new nuclear-capable missile.
President Donald Trump responded by calling for the US to resume the testing of nuclear weapons.
Neither country has tested nuclear weapons since the ‘90s, and Russia was quick to clarify that Putin did not announce new nuclear testing. During a trip to Asia, Trump did not meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who has rejected demands that his country denuclearize.
North Korea is one potential villain in a fictional movie about nuclear war on Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.” It is a “Rashomon”-style thriller about the concept of mutually assured destruction that the filmmakers mean to be a wakeup call for nuclear powers.
The Pentagon felt the need to draw up a memo responding to the film’s depiction of US missile defense systems as inherently flawed – like “trying to hit a bullet with a bullet” is the line repeated throughout the movie.
The film’s writer, Noah Oppenheim, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he welcomes the criticism, since the movie’s intention was “to invite a conversation about an issue which we think is tremendously important and doesn’t get enough attention, which is the fact that we h
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