In his another masterpiece, Wells describes Atomic warfare, with many of the details about chain reaction, radiation etc. He also tells about the political aftermath and how the world adopts "World Republic", that is, one-world government,
Most astonishing is the thing, that he wrote this in 1913 and it was published in 1914, during early days of the first world war, and the things he mentioned came into existence in the second world war, much after he wrote this.