The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen.
Leo Szilard had a belief that there had to be an element that could undergo a runaway nuclear fission reaction -- he took his belief from H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel "The World Set Free" (1914). He really had no real reason to believe this, but he set about finding such a reaction
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NICE SOUNDING PIECE OF JUNK WOLF ...............
That H. G. Wells. Always a barrel of laughs!
The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen.
Leo Szilard had a belief that there had to be an element that could undergo a runaway nuclear fission reaction -- he took his belief from H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel "The World Set Free" (1914). He really had no real reason to believe this, but he set about finding such a reaction
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