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The World set free. A story of mankind

This story of the invention of atomic bombs is an eerily prophetic tale that predates the invention of nuclear weapons. Leó Szilárd, inventor of the neutron chain reaction that makes nuclear weapons possible, read the book a year before his groundbreaking invention.

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  • "This story of the invention of atomic bombs is an eerily prophetic tale that predates the invention of nuclear weapons. Leó Szilárd, inventor of the neutron chain reaction that makes nuclear weapons possible, read the book a year before his groundbreaking invention."@en
  • "The World Set Free is a perfect example of H. G. Wells's gift for prophecy. Written on the eve of World War I, the novel predicts a major world war (although in the story the war doesn't start until 1956). The novel also examines the advent of atomic power, both as a bomb and a source of energy."
  • "A story of a new society growing from the ashes of nuclear destruction."@en
  • "A prophetic novel, first published in 1914, foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. The physicist Leó Szilárd, who worked in the Manhattan Project, read the book in 1932 and conceived the idea of nuclear chain reaction in 1933."
  • "In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H.G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to "start over". You will see many similarities between H.G. Wells' new world and today's world due to the recent technological revolution. This stimulating novel will leave you wondering if and when the remaining predictions will come to pass!"@en
  • "H. G. Wells's chilling and prophetic tale of a world gone mad with atomic weapons and of the rebirth of human-kind from the rubble. Written long before the atomic age, Wells's novel is a riveting and intelligent history of the future that discusses for the first time the horrors of the atomic bomb, offering a startling vision of humanity purged by a catastrophic atomic war. -Amazon.com."
  • "The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H.G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. A constant theme in Wells' work, such as his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the role of energy and technological advance as a determinant of human progress. The novel opens: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal." Scientists of the day were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like radium continues for thousands of years, a."@en
  • "A prophetic novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons."

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  • "Electronic resource"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Science fiction"
  • "War stories"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "The World set free. A story of mankind"@en
  • "The World set free, a story of mankind, by H. G. Wells"
  • "Befreite Welt : roman"
  • "Hur världen blev fri en berättelse om människosläktet"
  • "The world set free : a story of mankind"
  • "The world set free : a story of mankind"@en
  • "La Destruction libératrice"
  • "World Set Free"
  • "The world set free : essays"@en
  • "The world set free a story of mankind"@en
  • "The world set free a story of mankind"
  • "The world set free : in the collected Essex edition of the works of the above author, volume XXIII"@en
  • "The World Set Free"@en
  • "Hur världen blev fri : en berättelse om människosläktet"
  • "Hur världen blev fri : en berättelse om människosläktet"@sv
  • "The World set free"
  • "The world set free: a story of mankind"
  • "The world set free: a story of mankind"@en
  • "The world set free"@en
  • "The world set free"
  • "The world set free : A story of mankind"
  • "World set free : Collins"@en
  • "The world set free; a story of mankind"@en
  • "Osvobozhdennyǐ mīr : povest ́o chelovechestve"
  • "Osvobozhdennyǐ mīr povest ́o chelovechestve"
  • "The world set free : a story of Mankind"
  • "WORLD SET FREE"
  • "The World set free : a story of Mankind"
  • "The world set free, a story of mankind"@en
  • "The last war : a world set free"@en
  • "The World set free, etc"@en
  • "Befreite Welt : Roman"
  • "Osvobozený svět"

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