The Pentagon really isn’t too happy with Netflix.
Hot off their unexpected criticism of the streamer’s “Boots”, the U.S. Department of Defence has now taken issue with Kathryn Bigelow’s new film “A House of Dynamite” which premiered on the streamer this past Friday.
Bloomberg (via Deadline) reports that an internal memo was issued by the DoD’s Missile Defense Agency on October 16th that intended to “address false assumptions, provide correct facts and a better understanding” of the current system.
In the film, it’s stated that current missile defenses are said to have a 50% success rate in taking down incoming warheads, such as an enemy missile heading to wipe out Chicago in the film’s narrative.
The memo issued earlier this month says the multibillion-dollar hit-to-kill systems that are in place today have “displayed a 100% accuracy rate in testing for more than a decade.”
The film’s screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, a former NBC News chief, told MSNBC that he would ‘respectfully disagree’ with the Pentagon’s assessment and adds: “I welcome the conversation. I’m so glad the Pentagon watched, or is watching, and is paying attention to it, because this is exactly the conversation we want to have.”
Both Bigelow and Oppenheim have said the film “had multiple tech advisers who have worked in the Pentagon” to advise them, none of whom were from the current administration.
Bigelow has also made it clear she kept the Pentagon at arm’s length to maintain independence.
One element not in dispute is that there are still around 12,300 nuclear weapons among the arsenals of the nine nuclear powers, a number that could still easily destroy all life on Earth many times over.
“A House of Dynamite” is now available on Netflix.
