seek to emulate Rivera, a legendary Patrolman who ordered the nuclear bombing of his own hometown and died himself in the blast. "Solution Unsatisfactory" marked the beginning of Heinlein's concern with nuclear weapons. After World War II, Heinlein believed that a nuclear arms race was an urgent problem. He wrote several works on nuclear warfare in the mid-1940s, such as "The Last Days of the United States", "How to be a Survivor", and "Pie from the Sky" but, except for "Back of the Moon," they were rejected by publishers. Heinlein wrote: In 1980, he published them in Expanded Universe along with "Solution Unsatisfactory". Echoes in later fiction The 1984 novel The Peace War by Vernor Vinge features a "Peace Authority" created when military research scientists develop a device called a "bobbler" and use it to take over the world and enforce world peace in a very similar fashion. References External links "Solution Unsatisfactory" on the Internet Archive "A Flight of Speculation" by Edward M. Wysocki, Jr. "Sympathy for the Devil" by Alexei Panshin "Robert A. Heinlein’s technological prophecies" by Mitch Wagner Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein Military fiction 1941 short stories World War II alternate histories Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Fiction about nuclear war and weapons Fiction set in 1944 Fiction set in 1945 Fiction set in 1951