Nobel stabilized nitroglycerin with sawdust, inventing dynamite. The nitwits that put in a det cap and sparked it up were the ones who blew up the world. In any event, it was just a refinement. The type of mind that invents new ways to make people, places, and things go away in a flash has been around since fire was domesticated.
In my opinion, numbnuts was given the peace prize in the hopes that it would then embarrass him to act like the the previous faux cowboy moron. Doesn't appear to have worked.

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