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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Alfred Nobel, the originator of the Nobel prize, invented dynamite believing mutually assured destruction would end war.

[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, mutually assured destruction likely will end war but maybe not in the way we hope.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

To be fair, it has been holding off nuclear war since 1949.

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