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Yes, Nobel was quite the man of peace, especially after the Swedish government banned the manufacture of glyceryltrinitrate, and he chose to take manufacturing operations offshore, onto a ship which exploded, killing his brother.

guillotine ? I'd call it a gravity-driven knife. Not particularly inventive.

Ironically , Fritz Haber a Jew in Germany invented war gases.

The human experience is laced with tragedy. What a world was wrought, before we were even borne into it.....