The Nobel-hosted 1954 peace lecture reports Nobel saying this to Bertha von Suttner. Its account presents the remark as his belief that increasingly destructive weapons might deter war. Source and attribution evidence ↗
“My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses” — Alfred Nobel
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My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses
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The Nobel-hosted 1954 peace lecture reports Nobel saying this to Bertha von Suttner. Its account presents the remark as his belief that increasingly destructive weapons might deter war. Source and attribution evidence ↗
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Alfred Nobel’s views on destructive technology are discussed in the Nobel-hosted 1954 peace lecture. The lecture offers a later historical account of his remark to Bertha von Suttner, not a surviving recording of that conversation.
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