VENICE, Italy (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow is exceedingly calm when she talks about nuclear annihilation.

That’s not to say she’s nonchalant about the topic— much the opposite. The Oscar-winning filmmaker discusses it with grave, matter-of-fact seriousness. But she also doesn’t need to dress up the threat in hyperbole, whether in conversation or in her new film “A House of Dynamite.” The reality of how it would all play out is chilling enough.

Eighteen minutes is not a lot of time to decide the fate of civilization, after all. But that’s about all U.S. leaders would have in the face of an imminent nuclear strike launched from somewhere in the Pacific. The film, in theaters Friday and streaming on Netflix on Oct. 24, goes inside the White House Situation Room and U.S. Strategic Command to show

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