{"id":250988,"date":"2025-10-25T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250988\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:04:07","slug":"house-of-dynamite-nuclear-missile-defense-fail-has-pentagon-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250988\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018House of Dynamite\u2019 Nuclear Missile Defense Fail Has Pentagon Worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The plot of A House of Dynamite, the new thriller from Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, hinges on \u2014 spoiler alert \u2014  US missile defenses failing to knock down a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile headed for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Pentagon agency responsible for the more than $50 billion system of ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California designed to avoid just such a scenario isn\u2019t happy about it. The movie, starring Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson, had a limited theater release and is now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plot of A House of Dynamite, the new thriller from Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, hinges on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3292,136762,2356,157,102,88,2420,2914,111,107,1139],"class_list":{"0":"post-250988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-alaska","9":"tag-anthony-a-ramos","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-donald-john-trump","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-netflix-inc","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-us-dollar-spot","18":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}