‘Mommy’s got her phone’: A House of Dynamite is good on nuclear threat – and great on smartphone reliance

<p>The Netflix film graphically highlights the importance mobiles bring to both work and home life, as well as their potential to wreak havoc on a global scale</p><p>Since its release, A House of Dynamite has triggered its own fallout over how accurately the film depicts the government’s immediate response to a nuclear attack of unknown origin. Could a missile fired from the Pacific really reach Chicago in just 18 minutes? Is the decision to retaliate solely in the president’s hands?</p><p>In particular, the Pentagon has challenged the film’s suggestion that US-launched interceptor missiles have only a 61% success rate at shooting down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles, insisting that the real figure is 100% in testing. (The nonprofit Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation <a href="https://armscontrolcenter.org/what-a-house-of-dynamite-gets-right-and-wrong-about-missile-defense/">puts it even lower</a> than the film, at 55%.)</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/10/house-of-dynamite-nuclear-warfare-smartphone-addiction">Continue reading...</a>