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An early appearance of an Orion-style nuclear pulse propelled rocket in science fiction was in the science fiction novel Empire of the Atom written by A. E. van Vogt in 1956. In this novel there is a post-atomic-war interplanetary empire called the Empire of Lynn that uses Orion-type nuclear rockets for interplanetary spaceflight.
"Deadline" is a 1944 science fiction short story by American writer Cleve Cartmill, first published in Astounding Science Fiction. The story described the then-secret atomic bomb in some detail. At that time the bomb was still under development and top secret, which prompted a visit by the FBI. [1]
AXA, set in the aftermath of a nuclear- and biological war with heroine AXA fighting against evil; Barefoot Gen, Japanese manga about life after the Hiroshima bombing; Cobalt 60 by Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodē and Larry Todd, set in a post-apocalyptic world; Fist of the North Star, a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth
The other story is "Solution Unsatisfactory", which is concerned with a nuclear weapon, although it is only a radiological "dirty bomb", not a nuclear explosive device. The story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940, before any nuclear reactors had ever been built, and for its appearance in the 1946 anthology The Best of ...
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 2004 The Persistence of Vision: John Varley: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1978 The Planck Dive: Greg Egan: Asimov's Science Fiction: 1998 The Possessed (short story) Arthur C. Clarke: Dynamic Science Fiction: 1953 The Pre-persons: Philip K. Dick: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science ...
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The electroweak force only existed at temperatures approaching 10 15 Kelvin (about 1,800,000,000,000,000 ºF), which is why you’re not seeing much electroweak action nowadays.
The list includes technologies that were first posited in non-fiction works before their appearance in science fiction and subsequent invention, such as ion thruster. To avoid repetitions, the list excludes film adaptations of prior literature containing the same predictions, such as " The Minority Report ".