It's a nightmare we've been living with all our lives. "I grew up in an era when we had to hide under our desks in the case of an atomic bomb," said director Kathryn Bigelow, "so I suppose I was sort of imprinted early on with the prospect of nuclear war."

In Bigelow's new film, "A House of Dynamite," the prospect of nuclear war suddenly becomes an insane reality. It tells of a single missile launched from an unknown location in the Pacific. At first it looks like a test, but it keeps on coming – with a trajectory estimated to be the continental United States.

With 19 minutes to impact, the president (played by Idris Elba) has to make an impossible decision.

Idris Elba as the President of the United States facing a decision of nuclear retaliation in "A House of Dynamite." Eros Hoaglan

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