The First Nuclear Attack

In 1913, author H.G. Wells wrote a novel called The World Set Free, forewarning about the use of the atomic bomb. At the time, scientists knew that considerable energy could be released by splitting the atom, but they didn’t know how. He was the first to envision the chain reaction that would result from nuclear fission.

32 years later, Nagasaki and Hiroshima were attacked, validating his idea.