10 h. ago NATO braced for more Russian drones as Putin prepares nuclear war test

Poland has deployed 40,000 troops to its border as Belarus and Russia begin their nuclear war training drills

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7 d. ago Netflix drops 'the best trailer ever made' for chilling nuclear war thriller coming soon

The new thriller from Kathryn Bigelow and released by Netflix is set to be one of the biggest films of the year

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8 d. ago A House Of Dynamite leaves critics in awe with 'horrifically gripping and unsettling' nuclear war scenes dubbed 'more terrifying than most horror films'

The American political thriller premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on September 2 and will land on Netflix on October 24.

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9 d. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

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2 w. ago Chance of nuclear war 'massively higher than should be tolerable' warns expert

The UK and several other countries have increased defence spending in recent months as the threat of all-out war really does feel closer than ever . . . and it is, apparently

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3 w. ago Medvedev mocks European leaders for 'sucking up' to Trump after Zelensky's Oval Office love

Top Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev has mocked European leaders for 'sucking up' to Donald Trump and failing to 'outplay' him during the Ukraine summit in Washington. 

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4 w. ago Putin prepares for nuclear war on eve of Trump summit: Russia readys new cruise missile nuke for tests in satellite images after Donald warned of 'severe consequences' if Ukraine conflict continues

Experts say recent satellite images show intense preparations at the Pankovo test site on Novaya Zemlya, a remote archipelago in the Barents Sea.

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