Liberated world

Liberated World (Original title: The World Set Free ) is a science fiction novel by the English author HG Wells . In the first time in 1914 published novel Wells next the discovery describes nuclear energy and the development of nuclear weapons and the devastating consequences that a guided these weapons World War could have. Wells invented and coined the term atomic bomb with the work . The Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd was inspired by this work in the 1930s to think about nuclear chain reactions .

Web links

• Hanna Wick: Society & Religion - 100 years ago the atomic bomb was science fiction by HG Wells , SRF report on Liberated World
• Erik Strub: Soddy, Wells and the Atomic Bomb - A Literary Fiction from a Physical Perspective , in Physik Journal No. 7, 2005 (PDF)
• Marcus M. Payk : High expectation - HG Wells' utopia of a "liberated world" on the eve of the Great War , in Zeithistorische Forschungen No. 1, 2014