Special Bulletin
A tense, paranoia-soaked pseudo-documentary about nuclear terrorism that uses the immediacy of breaking news to create sustained dread about existential threat.
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.
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