"1914-2014: Weapons of the Next Great War" Topic

"World War I – the first industrial conflict on a global scale – began a century ago, using the rapidly advancing science to devise new weapons like poison gas, industrial shelling, aerial bombing, fighter planes and tanks. The Great War wound up taking the lives of more than 37 million people. Wars might not have changed much since 1914, but weapons are more advanced and subtle as technology is changing faster than perhaps any time since the start of the 20th century.

Decades before World War I, scientist Alfred Nobel created dynamite but later became horrified at the carnage caused by his invention and donated his fortune to create a peace prize in his name.

"The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops," Nobel said…"
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