In Chaos theory, slight, even extremely minor changes in the input assumptions and parameters describing a world system can cause a dramatically different outcome. The Butterfly Effect.
“What you cannot imagine, you cannot discover” according to Albert Einstein.
H. G. Wells, like the Biblical prophets of old, did indeed imagine and envision the horrors of the atom bomb in his amazingly prophetic 1914 book “The World Set Free.” And we pick up, here, where he left off on an alternate timeline to destruction.
This science-fact filled historical novel, The Nazi A-Bomb, considers an only slightly different alternative timeline. Throughout this harrowing text we follow the real-life desperate back and forth race between America and Nazi Germany during WWII -- to be the first to construct a working atomic bomb. And while our present historical timeline suggests that America was first, that outcome was at no point during the war in Europe entirely certain. It could have gone either way up until the very end!
In 1939, Germany was years ahead of America in developing the theory and research essential to the construction of The Nazi A-Bomb. Even Britian was ahead of America in theoretical understanding. America struggled mightily to come from