The hit Netflix film imagined a world where the US president was having to make terrifying choices as a ballistic missile hurtled towards America. As the world takes a step closer to a regional war turning into a global conflict, military historian Guy Walters explains why it is hard to ignore the comparisons between what has happened in the last seven days and 1914 I t’s hard to think that a few days ago, the national obsession revolved around the Gorton and Denton by-election and the arrest