She's immensely skilled, and with this new Netflix film, she kicks things into overdrive to create a narrative fine-tuned to give viewers a panic attack. We seem to be regressing when it comes to fears of nuclear war. In the 1950s and '60s, the looming threat of nuclear annihilation was widespread; a strange fact of life reflected by duck-and-cover drills and surplus fallout shelters. After the Cold War, however, nuclear war seemed like a problem we had solved, or at least moved on from. Everyone in this movie is doing what they think is the right thing, but the film's bleak message seems to be that when it comes to nuclear war, there is no "right thing."