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Wells, Churchill, the tank and the bomb.(relationship between H.G. Wells and Winston Churchill)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20030601
Author:Colebatch, Hal G.P.

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL and the pioneering science-fiction writer, Fabian socialist and social prophet H.G. Wells are seldom thought of together, but there may have been a strange link between them: both forecast atom bombs long before Einstein and other scientists thought they were remotely practical.

Wells in his novel The World Set Free--written, quite amazingly, in 1913--predicted an atomic war in 1957 in which an aircraft (a monoplane like Enola Gay, but with an atomic engine) drops an atom bomb on Berlin. The bomb explodes in the air with a blinding flash. The city is ...

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