- Hell-Fire
Infobox Short story
name = Hell-Fire
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author =Isaac Asimov
country =United States
language = English
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genre =Science fiction short story
publication_type =Periodical
published_in = "Amazing Stories "
publisher =Ziff-Davis
media_type = Print (magazine , hardback,paperback )
pub_date = April 1951
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followed_by ="Hell-Fire" is a
science fiction short story byIsaac Asimov , originally published in the April 1951 issue of "Amazing Stories " and reprinted in the 1957 collection "Earth Is Room Enough ". It is one of a number of stories, such as "Darwinian Pool Room " and "Silly Asses ", in which Asimov worries about thenuclear arms race of the 1950s."Hell-Fire" is extremely short, and deals with a journalist, Alvin Horner, who speaks with Joseph Vincenzo, a scientist at Los Alamos, at the first exhibition of a film with super-slow-motion footage of a nuclear explosion. Vincenzo is sure that nuclear bombs are hell-fire, and tells the journalist they shall ultimately destroy mankind. After the scientist's observations, the film starts. For a brief moment, before initiating the full reaction into the infamous nuclear toadstool, the atomic blast resembles a specific shape: the face of the
Devil .
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