House of Dynamite warning on flawed nuclear missile defence is accurate

The Netflix nuclear war thriller A House of Dynamite is “pretty accurate”, a former UK general has said.

The Pentagon has taken extraordinary steps to deny claims made in the film that US missile interceptors only have a 50-61 per cent chance of stopping a nuclear bomb, insisting that tests have shown they work with a “100 per cent accuracy rate”.

However, Gen Sir Richard Barrons, a former commander of the UK’s Joint Forces Command, said that trying to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile at 15,000 miles an hour was like trying to “stop a bullet with a bullet” and that it was “quite accurate” to say it only worked around 50 per cent of the time. New Feature

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The row was triggered last month on the release of Oscar-winning