A thriller with hints of an administration with a freewheeling view of American nuclear power, a fearmongering politician (Jamie Lee Curtis) who wants to use The Bomb and Tika Sumpter as the aide who helps her sell the threat they’re facing so that she can do it.

What the aide knows could get her killed.

“An Acceptable Loss” has hints of Bush and Obama Administration figures, doctrines and actions — just familiar enough to seem real. It opens Jan. 19.