The World Set Free
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Traces the concrete line from H. G. Wells’s 1913 prophetic idea to Leo Szilard’s patents and the Manhattan Project that builds an actual atomic bomb and proves it at the Trinity test in July 1945, followed by the August attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a suppressed petition signed by about 70 scientists. Documents the response in computing: open source code used by ICE, the No Tech for ICE campaign, creation of the Hippocratic License v3 and the Organization for Ethical Source (2021) as tools to restrict harmful use.
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