Ben Marking's Fake BBC Nuclear Attack Broadcast (Full Resolution, Uncut, Unedited)
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A 56-minute fake BBC nuclear attack news broadcast originally made by Ben Marking, re-uploaded in full resolution. It is a fictional breaking-news special depicting nuclear war, and the uploader states it is not real.
Commenters bring it up in nuclear-fear and WWIII threads as an unnervingly realistic piece of fictional news coverage.
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4 comments from Hacker News
There's a pretty well-done War of the Worlds-style film where a local conflict escalates in to nuclear war at ▶ this video
Thanks to HN user eswat, you can: ▶ this video I recommend waiting till nighttime and turning up the volume for extra effect.
A very detailed fake BBC "Breaking News" special was produced a while back. The original seems to have disappeared, likely because people were sending it around without clear labeling as being intentionally fake, but here's one copy of it: ▶ this video
By watching this on repeat: ▶ this video Though that’s probably not a super useful coping mechanism. Still, the ending is 11 out of 10.