[Red Badger]

Heinlein fan, here.

Just read this story a few months back......................

[Steely Tom]

Thanks for posting this.

I too am a Heinlein fan, since I was a teenager.

I note that this story was written in 1949, and certain details it contains about atomic bomb operation may have been classified, or at least are schematic representations of information that was probably classified at the time, thinly obscured.

Other Heinlein stories of that time contain further details of atomic weapon design that IMHO reveal that Heinlein was privy to things he probably shouldn’t have been.

He did have a Navy background, and so might have been let in on some inside dope through those contact. Also, IIRC, he was for a time in the orbit of Jack Parsons and the other members of the GALCIT rocket research group that later became Aerojet General, so he might have heard some details through that pathway.

[Hootowl]

Then you might be interested in this: https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?&sort=-downloads&page=2

[Lurker]

Me too.

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[antidisestablishment]

Loved Heinlein as well. Really enjoyed The Childe Cycle books. It’s a shame Gordon R. Dickson died before finishing the series. The Tactics of Mistake was a classic.