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A new Netflix movie depicts a US president with barely a quarter of an hour to decide whether a nuclear missile attack is real and how to respond. Defence analyst Francis Tusa considers how Britain or its allies might react to this no-longer-fanciful threat
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n the new Kathryn Bigelow film, A House of Dynamite, a US president has 18 minutes to decide whether a missile heading towards the United States is a nuclear threat, and what he should authorise as retaliation. But the scenario can no longer be dismissed as unlikely. With near-nightly Russian ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine, as well as missiles being fired from Iran and Yemen against Israel, attacks are no longer unthinkable – they are the new normal.
