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: