Several Bulletin articles discussed the recent movie, A House of Dynamite, about a single missile coming from the Pacific toward Chicago. In the rather strained plot, the source of the missile is unknown, but North Korea comes immediately to mind. In the US popular discourse, North Korea is the scariest possessor of nuclear weapons and rockets to send these weapons on a ballistic trajectory to the United States. The film leaves the president pondering how to react.
This article was written by Victor Gilinsky and originally published by The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists.
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