It’s fair to say that Kathryn Bigelow’s ticking-clock nuclear war thriller, A House of Dynamite , is not for the faint of heart. Since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival , it’s been uniting critics not just in praise – the movie currently sits on 80 percent on Rotten Tomatoes – but in a shared sense of creeping dread.

It’s one of those movies that once watched, stays watched. A nuclear nightmare that will trigger Boomers and Gen-X-ers who grew up under the shadow of the Cold War and younger audiences fearful for the fate of the planet alike.

But how plausible is the scenario that Bigelow and her co-writer Noah Oppenheim, a former NBC News executive, are depicting? And how accurately does it depict the likely response of the US’s national security infrastructure and Pr

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