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Security agencies find the name change suspicious, suspecting he is trying to hide his background.
Asimov was inspired by his own frustration with people frequently misspelling his name as "Azimov". His father had actually chosen the "S" spelling when the family arrived in the U.S. in 1923, believing it would be pronounced like a "Z" as in German. Cultural Impact spell_my_name_with_an_s
The story ends by revealing that the entire sequence was orchestrated by two powerful aliens making a bet on whether they could prevent a nuclear war on Earth with a single, tiny change. Real-Life Inspiration tiny change. Real-Life Inspiration