“Perhaps my dynamite plans will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.”

Alfred Nobel (1833 to 1896)

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives, and who also founded the Nobel Prizes.