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As the war wound down in 1945, Heinlein began re-evaluating his career.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with the outbreak of the Cold War, galvanized him to write nonfiction on political topics.

In addition, he wanted to break into better-paying markets.

He published four influential short stories for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, leading off, in February 1947, with " The Green Hills of Earth ".

That made him the first science fiction writer to break out of the " pulp ghetto ".

In 1950, the movie Destination Moon — the documentary-like film for which he had written the story and scenario, co-written the script, and invented many of the effects — won an Academy Award for special effects.

Also, he embarked on a series of juvenile S. F.

novels for the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company that was to last through the 1950s ( at the rate of one book per year ).