By: Ju Hyung Kim
Netflix’s The House of Dynamite dramatizes a nightmarish scenario that feels uncomfortably plausible. An unidentified ballistic missile appears mid-flight over the Pacific, while the time for decision-making is compressed and attribution is unclear. The U.S. responds by firing two ground-based interceptors (GBIs) from Alaska, but they fail. As a result, the president faces the most dangerous dilemma: whether to opt for escalation under extremely uncertain circumstances.
