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== [[New Media]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwffUO4C5E This tribute] to ''[[Superfriends]]'' starts with a reporter in the middle of a catastrophe calling out for heroes.
* [[YouTube]] is full of uploads of EBS/EAS tests (as well as those for other systems outside the US.) There are also clips where the sound is used as a screamer, as well as plenty of parodies, remixes, mockups, and [[
** One terrifying but wholly unrealistic [[YouTube]] original horror creation is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWt4Di6zr14 this.] It's the use of the NOAA weather radio emergency tone, civil defense sirens, and voiceover work to create a very simulated Emergency Broadcast of a [[The Deadliest Mushroom|nuclear attack]]. This is of course nothing like how a real attack would occur, but it's still scary.
** Other simulated EAS alerts on [[YouTube]] highlight other non-weather, non [[Atomic Hate]] hazards it is sometimes used for (with the alert-type 3 letter abbreviation for said type added afterwards in parentheses), including some that are recordings of actual EAS activations such as:
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