I'm hoping they are using it as some sort of comm, but life has got very odd very quickly, so who knows..

I find it hard to believe that with all these convenient suitcase sized nukes and anti-matter lying around nobody has had an accident (or a planned event) so far in history. Lots of bad people with lots of incentives, it surely would've happened by now.

Ergo, (hopefully) just new and inventive comms.

Aaaaaand relax (I think).

In the event of an incident though, I believe the procedure is to jump 30000ft in the air and scatter ones self over a wide area. ;)