> “Science may place at the disposal of future men forces so great that an entire army or city could be annihilated in a second, and it is little exaggeration t

> “Science may place at the disposal of future men forces so great that an entire army or city could be annihilated in a second, and it is little exaggeration to state that if the gifts of science were grossly misused man might entirely disappear from the world.” For context, in 1913 H.G Wells wrote a novel "The World Set Free" that was essentially about atomic bombs. There was already quite a lot of speculation about the potential of harnessing radioactive elements to make bombs by the 20s.