Commentary: A dynamite film, but a house of cards on nuclear reality

As Bob Woodward described it in his book War, the intelligence community assessed that if Russian forces were facing a collapse in Ukraine, the probability that they would use tactical nuclear weapons was a coin flip. The danger culminated on the weekend of Oct 21 to Oct 23 in 2022, when Russia accused Ukraine of planning a dirty bomb attack, which felt a lot like a pretext for nuclear use. The movie is already being mentioned as an Oscar contender and a wake-up call about the dangers of nuclear war, in the genre of Cold War classics like Fail Safe.