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nineteenth and twentieth centuries the amount of energy that men were able to command was continually increasing. Applied to warfare that meant that the power to inflict a blow, the power to destroy, was continually increasing There was no increase whatever in the ability to escape Destruction was becoming so facile that any little body of malcontents could use it Before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city.
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Never before in the history of warfare had there been a continuing explosive; indeed, up to the middle of the twentieth century the only explosives known were combustibles whose explosiveness was due entirely to their instantaneousness; and these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that
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Certainly it seems now that nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands All through the
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concludes with a chapter recounting the reflections of one of the new order's sages, Marcus Karenin, during his last days. Karenin argues that knowledge and power, not love, are the essential vocation of humanity, and that "There is no absolute limit to either knowledge or power."
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From the first they had to see the round globe as one problem; it was impossible any longer to deal with it piece by piece. They had to secure it universally from any fresh outbreak of atomic destruction, and they had to ensure a permanent and universal
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In a volume published in 1968, Szilard wrote: "Knowing what would mean—and I knew because I had read H.G. Wells—I did not want this patent to become public." Quoted in Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie,
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Brought to its senses, humanity creates a utopian order along Wellsian lines in short order. Atomic energy has solved the problem of work. In the new order "the majority of our population consists of artists."
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Wells's "atomic bombs" have no more force than ordinary high explosive and are rather primitive devices detonated by a "bomb-thrower" biting off "a little celluloid stud." They consist of "lumps of pure
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in the heavier elements and so tapping the internal energy of atoms, was solved by a wonderful combination of induction, intuition, and luck by Holsten so soon as the year 1933.
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The problem which was already being mooted by such scientific men as Ramsay, Rutherford, and Soddy, in the very beginning of the twentieth century, the problem of inducing
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The devastation of the war leads the French ambassador at Washington, Leblanc, to summon world leaders to a conference at
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Scientists of the time were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like
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Wells viewed war as the inevitable result of the Modern State; the introduction of
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at the château of his mistress, Elizabeth von Arnim, dubbed "Soleil" ('Sun'), in
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released is huge. Wells used this as the basis for his story. In his fiction,
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A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book
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was discovered. In 1933 Szilárd conceived the idea of neutron
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This article is about the novel. For the TV episode, see
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continues for thousands of years, and that while the
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Index

The World Set Free (Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey)

H. G. Wells
Macmillan & Co.
E. P. Dutton
The World Set Free
Wikisource
H. G. Wells
Anticipations
The Outline of History
Frederick Soddy
Interpretation of Radium
radium
radio-activity
William Ramsay
Ernest Rutherford
Frederick Soddy
Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt
nuclear weapons
Leó Szilárd
neutron
chain reaction
Carolinum
atomic energy
collapse of society
Brissago
The World Set Free
The Shape of Things to Come
The World State
Dirty bomb

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