Nobel awarded a Nobel.

This year’s Nobel Prize for War goes posthumously to Alfred Nobel himself for his groundbreaking contribution to warfare all around the globe. His inventions, dynamite and gelignite, were literally ‘dynamite’ as they dramatically increased the destructive and killing capacities of war.
Alfred Nobel was Swedish and the son of the inventor of plywood. The ambitious Alfred saw no future in cheap wooden products in Sweden and so turned his attention to explosives. While spending time researching war, Nobel made a discovery: ‘Wars would just go on and on – the Hundred Years war for example,’ said Stewart Winchester, Professor of War at The London School of War, ’with very little being resolved and certainly not enough in the way of destruction and killing and Alfred saw this as a global problem.’
And certainly, without Nobel’s unselfish work, the First World War would not have been the Great War that it eventually came to be known as. Alfred unfortunately died before he could see his explosives not only kill more people than he could ever have dreamed of but also become one of the most effective tools of urban redesign. And now, thanks to Alfred Nobel’s work, there is some kind of war in every corner of the globe. ‘Where would the world be today without the work of Alfred Nobel?’ said Professor Winchester.