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Ben Marking's Fake BBC Nuclear Attack Broadcast (Full Resolution, Uncut, Unedited)

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What it is

A 56-minute fake BBC nuclear attack news broadcast originally made by Ben Marking, re-uploaded in full resolution.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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Commenters bring it up in nuclear-fear and WWIII threads as an unnervingly realistic piece of fictional news coverage.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “I recommend waiting till nighttime and turning up the volume for extra effect.”

    Chilling fake BBC nuclear attack broadcast

    sillysaurusx, 2022-02 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?”

  2. “There's a pretty well-done War of the Worlds-style film where a local conflict escalates in to nuclear war”

    Well-done fictional news-style film of conflict escalating to nuclear war

    CalRobert, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “Threads (1984) – Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: nuclear war, fake news broadcast, bbc, emergency alert, fiction

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