A science fiction history of World War 3
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The History of Mankind - The World Set Free
H g Wells was able to predict the discovery of nuclea energy, which was the point in the 19 forties where our history changed. We are through the manhattan projectah, the the words of oppenheine, now i am become death destroyer of worlds. And he saw the development of high energy weapons, a new generation of weapons would be discovered. It shows you, in a sense, how little progress we have been capable of making through the twentieth century. All of the elements of where we are now were in place when wells was thinking at the beginning of the century.
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