The ticking-clock threat of an imminent missile strike makes for propulsive viewing. It’s long been a go-to setup in Hollywood, from “Dr. Strangelove” on.

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But the thing is, the threat of nuclear war hasn’t gone away. In the decades since the Cold War, it’s just evolved. Instead ...

The meaning of "A House of Dynamite," including its ending, lies in the impossibility of what it asks from its characters.

Generation-defining nuclear-war movies seem to come in pairs. Stanley Kubrick’s bleak satire “Dr. Strangelove” arrived in ...

“Within the framework of nuclear strategy” is the caveat—and the underlying topic of this movie. Sitting in his airplane, ...

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Movies can tell us a lot about what scares us. And ever since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fear of nuclear war has... Looking back at the nuclear age of filmmaking Art ...

Art serves many purposes, like providing us with an inside look at the fears and neuroses of society at any given time in history. This month marked the 80th anniversary of when the U.S. dropped ...