Set in the 1950s, Wells's neglected novel The World Set Free describes a conflict so horrific that it actually is the war that ends war. Wells imagined a war that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in a utopia of enlightened world government. Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I's mass slaughter and long before World War II's mushroom cloud finale, H. Wells imagines a war “to end all wars” that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia. In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H.
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