Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin is an American madeforTV movie produced as an early collaboration between director Edward Zwick and writer Marshall Herskovitz, a team that would later produce such series as thirtysomething and My SoCalled Life. The movie was first broadcast March 20, 1983 on NBC as an edition of NBC Sunday Night at the Movies.

A Special Bulletin slide interrupts commercials on the RBS television network for its TV shows. A TV crew covering a dockworkers strike are caught in the middle of a firefight between the U.S. Coast Guard and the crew of a tugboat sitting at a dock in Charleston, South Carolina. The coast guardsmen surrender and are taken hostage, as are the reporter and cameraman.The reporter is asked to televise a statement by the terrorists calling for delivery to them of every nuclear trigger device at the U.S. Naval Base in Charleston. Without these triggers, nuclear weapons on the naval warships and nuclearpowered submarines based at Charleston cannot be used. The terrorists reveal that they have constructed their own nuclear deviceone roughly equivalent to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Their device is set to detonate withinhours if their demand is not met, and has antitampering devices that will set it off if any attempt is made to move or disarm it. ........

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