This weekend brings Halloween holidays, and that means everyone is looking for the best horror movies to watch. For our modern times and , here are 10 nuclear war movies for your Halloween watchlist.

The arrival of director Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated nuclear war thriller “A House of Dynamite” (in theaters and on Netflix now) heralds the return of a long-forgotten genre: the cautionary ...

One of the climactic moments in A House of Dynamite is a friendly reminder. Captain Olivia Walker (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is in the White House Situation Room where, moments earlier, her team ...

Ernest J. Moniz served as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy and is Co-Chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization focused on reducing nuclear, ...

After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever. By Trevor Quirk In 1964, the ...

“At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.” That is the chilling opening line of Kathryn ...

A few weeks ago, after the release of A House of Dynamite on the 2025 movie schedule, a colleague recommended Annie Jacobson’s 2024 non-fiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario and explained how Denis ...