Pre-Cold War Prevention

More than 100 years, before the cold war, a man named Alred Nobel, the inventor of the nobel peace prize, invented a powerful high yield explosive known as nitroglycerin. This substance was incredible volatile and eventually Nobel remade it into modern Dynamite. Ironically, Nobel intended this new explosive to prevent war. In his own words: "The day when two army corps can annihilate one another in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops." A principal which was put to the test by the ultimate weapons of the 20th century.