he also had another project in mind, which he described in a memorandum just before the announcement of the Japanese surrender. The memo was titled “Tentative Proposal for Projects to Be Carried On at NAMC.” Its actual subject was rockets—the deployment of atomic bombs on missiles like the ones that had rained down on London, in a terrible combination of the two weapons that had embodied the genre’s greatest fears. Heinlein proposed that the Navy organize a mission to the moon, since the technical problems were largely the same, and he strongly implied that he was the one best prepared to lead
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