H.G. Wells Novel Inspired Atomic Bomb Development
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“Twenty years later, in the early 1930s, we know for a fact that Leo Zalard, as one of the creators of the atomic bomb, not only had read this book, but credits this book and H.G. Wells with giving him essentially the idea for atomic chain reaction.”
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“So Wells wasn't only a prophet looking out at the scientific world of the early 20th century and identifying the power and peril that would unfold, but also a key inspiration to one of the scientists closely involved, Leo Zillard.”
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