“A House of Dynamite”: ‘Riveting’ US nuclear attack thriller is ‘more terrifying than most horror films’
Director Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, premiered to a nearly 13-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival this week. Starring Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba, the film explores the tensions and horrors of a U.S. nuclear attack scenario. Hitting theaters amid rising global nuclear tensions, the film is a stark reminder of global insecurity at the nuclear brink.
The world needs another nuclear freeze movement
In the Daily Hampshire Gazette, guest columnists Robert Weiner and Jenny Zhao urged the global community to reprise the 1980s nuclear freeze movement to pressure the nuclear weapons states to pursue arms control. They articulate three lessons from the freeze movement that modern advocates can emulate: use accessible language in public messaging; second, unstoppable coalitions; and make a freeze verifiable without new, overly-complex verification regimes.
‘Difficult to overstate demand from institutional investors’ for nuclear energy
Speakers at World Nuclear Association’s Financing Strategic Summit in London highlighted the need to proactively develop financing frameworks for nuclear energy amid the global push to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
Aalo breaks ground for experimental reactor
On August 29, Aalo Atomics broke ground at a site in Idaho to start construction of its first experimental extra modular nuclear reactor, the Aalo-X, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program. Aalo expects to complete construction and achieve criticality by July 4, 2026.