How The Bomb changed everythingNuclear Age anxieties had a profound effect on film, TV, music and literature – artists found creative responses to the spectre of destruction, writes Samira Ahmed. It was HG Wells who first conceived the atomic bomb and even gave it its name, in a 1914 novel called The World Set Free. Wells imagined a uranium-based hand grenade that “would continue to explode indefinitely”. He may have got the sh
