Museums in Las Vegas: Understanding The Future Through The Past

Museums in Las Vegas hold the answers to the questions people have been asking about nuclear wars for decades. For 70 years, the story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain a proof of destructive weapons of war. They remain a tale of two cities wiped out by a powerful atomic bomb. The world has lived in peace since then. However, many people still wonder what a future atomic bomb would be like. With the many advancements in combat weapons, it could be a hundred times deadlier. Learning more about the atomic bomb's past bring better understanding of its future.

The World’s Reaction to the Atomic Bomb

The World Set Free, a 1914 novel by HG Wells may have indirectly influenced the creation of the atomic bomb. That is the theory proposed by an article in BBC in July 2015. Leo Szilard, the physicist who invented the neutron chain reaction in 1933, read Wells’ book in 1932 when the neutron was discovered. Wells’ novel is based on an explosive made of uranium that the author imagined it to produce “a blazing continual explosion.” A visit to the National Atomic Testing Museum in Vegas would tell you that this is not far from what the real atomic bombs can do. It is so powerful that it even influenced our literature and pop culture. Here’s proof: