Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

by Alec Nevala-Lee

Atomic physics . . . could end the war in a day, in a fraction of a second, beyond doubt—but there’s considerable doubt as to whether there would then be a postwar world to worry about. —JOHN W. CAMPBELL, ASTOUNDING, AUGUST 1943