The World Set Free a Story of Mankind

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The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells.[1] The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen.[2][3][4] It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free.[5]

A frequent theme of Wellss work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the history of humans mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. … Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back ever and again, he is doing more."[6] (Many of the ideas Wells develops here found a fuller development when he wrote The Outline of History in 1918-1919.) The novel is dedicated "To Frederick Soddys Interpretation of Radium," a volume published in 1909.

Scientists of the time were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like radium continues for thousands of years, and that while the rate of energy release is negligible, the total amount released is huge. Wells used this as the basis for his story. In his fiction,

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In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war  to end all wars  that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.

Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I s mass slaughter and long before World War II s mushroom cloud finale, H. G. Wells imagined a war that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in a utopia of enlightened world government. Set in the 1950s, Wells s neglected novel The World Set Free describes a conflict so horrific that it actually is the war that ends war. 
 
Wells the first to imagine a  uranium-based bomb  offers a prescient description of atomic warfare that renders cities unlivable for years:  Whole blocks of buildings were alight and burning fiercely, the trembling, ragged flames looking pale and ghastly and attenuated in comparison with the full-bodied crimson glare beyond.  Drawing on discoveries by physicists and chemists of the time, Wells foresees both a world powered by clean, plentiful atomic energy and the destructive force of the neutron chain reaction.

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Written in 1913, Well imagined a war that was indeed a war so horrific that it ended all wars. He
conceived of a  uranium-based bomb  and his description of the destruction such a weapon
would cause was seemingly prescient in its accuracy.  Whole blocks of buildings were alight
and burning fiercely, the trembling, ragged flames looking pale and ghastly and attenuated in
comparison with the full-bodied crimson glare beyond.  Although Wells&#39; atomic bombs only
have a limited power of explosion, they keep on exploding for days on end.
The characters represent a visionary, a moral compass, the monarchy and populists and somehow
through this destruction emerges an enlightened utopian planetary government. The destructive
power of atomic energy is eventually harnessed for good and has solved the problem of work. In
the new order &quot;the majority of our population consists of artists.&quot; A classic of the futuristic
novel relevant still over 100 years later for its genius and vision.

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