Dec 262014
From 1983, the fake new broadcast that spooked the bejeebers out of a bunch of folks…
In short: anti-nuclear activists build a nuke and deposit it in Charleston, South Carolina. The visual effects are pretty rudimentary and not very convincing *now,* but at the time it did cause a bit of a freakout among people who didn’t know they were watching fiction. The exact level of freakout is uncertain… the press likes to play up such things. The famous panic caused by Orson Wells’ 1939 radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” has been blown *way* out of proportion, with a whole lot of fiction being taken as fact (ironic, that is…).