The arrival of director Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated nuclear war thriller “A House of Dynamite” (in theaters and on Netflix now) heralds the return of a long-forgotten genre: the cautionary ...

Former State Department official Joel Wit and Yerdaulet Rahkmatulla, co-founder of the Qazaq Nuclear Frontline Coalition ...

On the morning of Oct. 10, 1983, in the rocky hills of Camp David, President Ronald Reagan was treated to an early screening of one of the year’s most anticipated films, “The Day After,” a two-hour ...

A new era is born.

Imagine a nuclear warhead is hurtling straight toward us, with only 18 minutes to respond before a major city is obliterated. The movie was conceived by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, who has ...

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 ...

Generation-defining nuclear-war movies seem to come in pairs. Stanley Kubrick’s bleak satire “Dr. Strangelove” arrived in 1964, the same year as Sidney Lumet’s even bleaker Cold War drama “Fail Safe.” ...

A desert site about 65 miles north of Las Vegas had been selected for nuclear weapons testing. It was 1953 and 11 atomic bomb ...

I won’t ruin “A House of Dynamite,” a new film from justly famed director Kathryn Bigelow, by saying whether a single warhead destroys Chicago, having been launched by an unknown actor from the waters ...