Lieutenant in the Interplanetary
Patrol whom Colonel
Towers tried to recruit for his coup attempt. Instead, Dahlquist blockaded
himself in with the base's atomic bombs, and died of radiation poisoning after
manually disarming them.
John
Dahlquist died of radiation poisoning after disarming H-bombs that
renegade Interplanetary
Patrol officers intended to use to gain control of Earth's governments.
Military/civil service organization that patrolled the space lanes and
also monitored the system of H-bombs that orbited the planets to prevent any
one government from committing aggression against others. A plot by senior
officers to overthrow the government by seizing control of the H-bombs was
foiled by John
Dahlquist.
Site of an Interplanetary
Patrol armory. John
Dahlquist was stationed here, and prevented a military coup by barricading
himself inside the nuclear weapons storage building.
The Heinlein
Society was founded by Virginia Heinlein on behalf of her husband, science
fiction author Robert Anson Heinlein, to "pay forward" the legacy of Robert A. Heinlein to future generations of "Heinlein's Children."