TY - BOOK AU - Wells,H.G. TI - The World Set Free AV - PR PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - War stories KW - Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction KW - Nuclear warfare -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free; Release date is 2006-02-11; Charles Keller and David Widger Updated: 2022-11-24; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The World Set Free" by H. G. Wells is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914. Wells envisions a devastating future war in 1956 where both sides wield atomic bombs—crude but continuously burning weapons that leave battlefields radioactive for years. As civilization collapses under nuclear destruction, humanity faces a choice: descend into barbarism or unite under a world government. The novel explores how uncontrolled atomic energy forces mankind to abandon the nation-state system and embrace global cooperation to survive. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1059 ER -