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The Real-World House of Dynamite: What the Film Gets Right (and What’s Still Missing)
Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker in A House of Dynamite. Photo credit: Eros Hoagland/Netflix © 2025 Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is a gripping thriller that captures the terrifying speed of a nuclear crisis. It gets key things right: the short...
Resources for Hosting a Gathering to Watch A House of Dynamite
Thinking and talking about nuclear war is never easy, but its something we have to do if we want to make progress towards nuclear disarmament. A House of Dynamite (available to stream on Netflix starting October 24, 2025) is a great opportunity for more people to get...
100 Days to the Brink: Why the New START Countdown Demands Our Leadership
We all know how our lives can change in good or bad ways in a blink of an eye, on any given day. Human history is filled with these moments, these inflection points. 63 years ago in October 1962, we were in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. and the...
The Washington Post – Sound this alarm
This letter to the editor by BftB’s Peter Wilk responds to commentary from Max Boot about the Netflix film, House of Dynamite. (Scroll to bottom of page to read.)
St. Louis Post Dispatch – Opinion: Eliminating nukes is both a moral and economic imperative
Writer William Lambers encourages citizens to push legislators to prioritize nuclear disarmament as a way to commemorate International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. He also encourages participation in the Back From the Brink campaign.
Davis Enterprise – Join effort against nuclear weapons
This op-ed by Back from the Brink Hub leader Genevieve Diane Colborn invites action around the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26.
September 26: A Day to Call on Leaders to Support a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
The very first resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946 concerned nuclear disarmament as one of its highest priorities — a reflection of how important this was and continues to be for many nations, communities, and billions of people around...
Common Dreams – Defining Our Role in the Wake of the International Day of Peace
BftB’s Dr. Bob Dodge reflects on how in this challenging time —80 years since the founding of the United Nations and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a world torn apart by war — there is hope for a just, environmentally sustainable, and peaceful world.
BftB Hub Members Testify at Massachusetts State Legislature
On September 10th, a committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature held a hearing on a Back from the Brink resolution, S. 1649, a "Resolution to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and move the U.S. back from the brink...