Well-written, reflective piece of science history. People's reactions are seldom mentioned. It got me thinking about what H.G. Wells (surely!) had to say on th

Well-written, reflective piece of science history. People's reactions are seldom mentioned. It got me thinking about what H.G. Wells (surely!) had to say on the topic. (Of course.) I ran across this: "H G Wells coined the term “atomic bomb” in his 1914 novel The World Set Free, which depicted a mid-20th-century war fought with radioactive bombs that exploded – and then kept exploding, poisoning the area with radiation." [https://theconversation.com/even-before-hiroshima-people-knew-the-atomic-bomb-45271 https://theconversation.com/even-before-hiroshima-people-kne...] The article links to the Gutenberg copy of the novel, which includes a 1921 preface by Wells. [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1059/1059-h/1059-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1059/1059-h/1059-h.htm] I've been listening to an audiobook of 'The Time Machine'. It's not there but: In his 1960 movie, George Pal's screenplay wrote-in a stop in 1966 for the Time Traveller - so he could experience the explosion of a 'nuclear satellite'. I suspect that scene was derived from TWSF, in which "The bomb flashed blinding scarlet in mid-air...."