The world set free /
Building on the recent discovery that "the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetrable, and indivisible and final and lifeless, is really a reservoir of immense energy," Wells conjures a 1950s England in which clean, efficient atomic engines have transformed life for the better. Alas,...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Radium age series.
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| Summary: | Building on the recent discovery that "the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetrable, and indivisible and final and lifeless, is really a reservoir of immense energy," Wells conjures a 1950s England in which clean, efficient atomic engines have transformed life for the better. Alas, a world war breaks out, in which atomic bombs wipe out the world's great cities. Worldwide civilization is on the brink of collapse, when a conference of enlightened monarchs, presidents, powerful journalists and scientists gathers in order to establish a peaceful one-world order. When one Kissinger-like figure begins to strategize about maintaining national autonomy and monarchical authority within this utopian world government, another character shuts him up with one word, "BANG!" |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 252 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780262543361 0262543362 |