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From the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914
In his 1914 novel, British author Herbert George Wells imagined that artificial atomic energy would be developed by 1933 and used in a devastating world war from which a peaceful global government would emerge. Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd read the book in 1932 and resolved to find out how to liberate this atomic energy. The answer, a nuclear chain reaction, came to him suddenly in 1933. The novel also inspired him to advocate for arms control and the peaceful use of nuclear energy following the Second World War.
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