A number of inventors created a weapon so destructive they believed it would end all wars, examples being: Alfred Nobel and dynamite (“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men find that in one instant whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace”), Hiram Maxim and Maxim gun (“The machine gun has made war impossible. It will put an end to war just as the guillotine put an end to crime in France”), Richard Gatling and Gatling gun (“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine—a gun—which could by its rapidity of fire enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a great extent, supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease be greatly diminished… and perhaps war itself might be abolished”), Fritz Haber and poison gas (“Gas weapons will put a quick end to this war, and the horror of their use will make another war impossible”).
Etherealwarbear on
Like the machine gun? Is that what you’re alluding to?
Because I’m pretty sure Dr Gattling invented his gun to deter people from waging war, but it obviously didn’t work.
Mobile-Revolution558 on
The Bomb to End All Bombs
(what is this sub, an Oppenheimer hater circlejerk?!?)
Coiling_Dragon on
Ah yes, when idealistic inventors have no idea how waging war works.
aisvajsgabdhsydgshs1 on
I made a meal so good nobody will starve to death!
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A number of inventors created a weapon so destructive they believed it would end all wars, examples being: Alfred Nobel and dynamite (“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men find that in one instant whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace”), Hiram Maxim and Maxim gun (“The machine gun has made war impossible. It will put an end to war just as the guillotine put an end to crime in France”), Richard Gatling and Gatling gun (“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine—a gun—which could by its rapidity of fire enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a great extent, supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease be greatly diminished… and perhaps war itself might be abolished”), Fritz Haber and poison gas (“Gas weapons will put a quick end to this war, and the horror of their use will make another war impossible”).
Like the machine gun? Is that what you’re alluding to?
Because I’m pretty sure Dr Gattling invented his gun to deter people from waging war, but it obviously didn’t work.
The Bomb to End All Bombs
(what is this sub, an Oppenheimer hater circlejerk?!?)
Ah yes, when idealistic inventors have no idea how waging war works.
I made a meal so good nobody will starve to death!
Nukes stopped ww3 from happening.