The Devil Reached Toward the Sky Quotes

“Leo Szilard: In 1932, while I was still in Berlin, I read a book by H.G. Wells called The World Set Free. This book was written in 1913, one year before the World War, and in it H.G. Wells describes the discovery of artificial radioactivity and puts it in the year of 1933, the year in which it actually occurred. He then proceeds to describe the liberation of atomic energy on a large scale for industrial purposes, the development of atomic bombs, and a world war which was apparently fought”
― Garrett M. Graff, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb