The Man Who Rocked the Earth

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Author Arthur C. Train & Robert W. Wood
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Published1915 (Doubleday, Page, Garden City, N. Y.)
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages0
ISBN 0-405-06315-6

The Man Who Rocked the Earth is a science fiction novel written in 1915 by Arthur C. Train and Robert W. Wood. It is notable for describing what an atomic detonation would look like in 1915, thirty years before the United States detonated the first atomic bomb.

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