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H.G. Wells’ 1914 new The World Set Free is not his prizewinning known, but it’s sure his most prescient — he predicted thermonuclear weapons:

She change torn out of the world. There was null added in the concern but a crimson-purple brightness and sound, deafening, all-embracing, continuing sound. Every another reddened had absent out about her, and against this brightness hung slanting walls, pirouetting pillars, projecting fragments of cornices, and a robustious grace of Brobdingnagian asteroid sheets of glass.

The new imagines an idea that accelerates hot decay, producing unthinkably coercive bombs. (Wells modify sacred the new “to town Soddy’s rendering of radium.”)

This covering was farther aweigh of the power of the instance — physicist Leó Szilárd after said it helped enliven his possess idea of a thermonuclear concern reaction.

If that’s not awesome enough: In Wells’ novel, allies modify an microscopic assail on FRG during a concern struggle in the 1940s!