Overview
- Bloomberg reported that an internal MDA memo tells staff to address “false assumptions” from A House of Dynamite and highlights what it describes as a 100 percent intercept record in tests over more than a decade.
- The film dramatizes a nuclear ICBM threat to Chicago and references an interceptor hit rate around 50–61 percent alongside a program cost of roughly $50 billion.
- Independent analysts, including physicist Laura Grego of the Union of Concerned Scientists, contend those official test results do not reflect complex, realistic scenarios with multiple missiles or decoys.
- Released on October 24, the movie quickly led Netflix’s film charts with 22.1 million views in its first three days and top placements in dozens of countries.
- Director Kathryn Bigelow says the production relied on expert advisers and sought fact-grounded fiction, and earlier interviews noted she declined formal Pentagon cooperation.