I've wondered how much of this episode was cold war brainworms and how much was "need to crank out scripts + topical for the time event + general nihilism + compulsory twist".
For a while I had assumed Rod Serling was cool because I erroneously thought he was the blacklisted writer behind Planet of the Apes but this episode slapped me right out of it.
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