Dick wrote in a letter: "One day I saw a newspaper headline reporting that the President suggested that if Americans had to buy their bomb shelters, rather than being provided with them by the government, they'd take better care of them, an idea which made me furious.
"[1]It was adapted by Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell for the episode "Safe and Sound" of the 2017 TV series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.
[citation needed] The story takes place in 1971 where the vast majority of citizens own private bomb shelters and financially support nuclear war preparations for their town.
The story revolves around Mike Foster, the adolescent son of an "anti-P", a movement of outsiders refusing to take part in these preparations, because they argue the military industrial complex is only creating fear to sell more bomb shelters.
Mike, however, lives in fear that he will not have access to a shelter when the war begins and is a social outcast because of his father's political positions.