If governments do not want civilians to be forced to flee, we need to protect them from the use of explosive weapons in populated areasWhen dynamite was invented in 1867, Alfred Nobel was reportedly acutely aware of its horrendous potential. Bertha von Suttner, his personal friend and Austrian Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1905, relates how Nobel anticipated that his invention would lead to weapons so powerful “that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second”Nobel had hoped that “all civilised nations [would] surely recoil with horror and disband their troops” at the prospect. Sadly, military forces …read more
Source: The Guardian
