Books like The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories

So Szilard was one of the original guys who came up with the idea it might be possible to weaponize an atom by unleashing the power via fission. He promoted the science of it to the US with Einstein as a hedge against Hitler's fascism, and later learned to regret this decision after the Trinity test, when it was clear this genie was not going back in the bottle and not only going to be used to fight fascism.This book, a collection of sci-fi stories written in the late forties about various possible "futures" (circa the 1980's) which is now in the past, was an interesting "meta" read. The hopefulness of atomic arms eradication still seems a possibility enough in these nascent nuke years, enough so to write fiction that lays out a game plan for how to actually end the arms race as it was happening. The writing is less engaging than the ideas Szilard tries to convey through the stories. On the whole and in historical review, it definitely holds up as interesting when you know the history of it's author and the milieu in which it was constructed.This is one of those little books that gets lost to history unless you were looking for it, and I feel lucky to work in a library so I didn't miss this meaningful little nugget of history. The book fills in the more aesthetic crevices of atomic era history, that never really get explored much in history books.