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Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin
Release date: 1983-03-20
Rating: 6.98
Votes: 25
Genres: TV Movie, Drama, Thriller
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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Muppet_Man

Muppet_Man

A worryingly realistic docudrama about a group of terrorists who want to force Nuclear weapons to be disarmed by threatening to explode one themselves.

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