Several main characters discuss the hospital's potential participation in the Department of Defense Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System Plan. This discussion portrays a very real debate in the US medical community regarding how civilian hospitals might be involved in caring for military personnel in case of war. In August 1982 Gerald Coleman wrote an essay "The Hospital Response: The Morality of the
Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System" that discusses this topic at length.
Referring to radium, Dr. Benzig says to White, "The lead will protect you, like Superman with kryptonite." Terence Knox (Peter White) later played Jason Trask, the first villain to use kryptonite against Superman, in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993).