Excellent story.
As mentioned by other commenters, this story is timely considering that somehow major powers have ended up with seriously flawed, ego-driven leaders, thereby increasing the likelihood of mutual nuclear annihilation. The story shows that vintage technological solutions may provide a means of circumventing government surveillance and possibly maintaining lines of communication in the event of nuclear war. The relevance of the story is obvious, given that government surveillance is already a reality, and nuclear EM pulses can easily take out the communications networks we have become so reliant upon. Given the way things are going, we are likely to see more fiction in the Dr. Strangelove tradition of the Cold War era.
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